Add instance IsString ShowS where fromString = showString

[Bas van Dijk]

On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 12:47 PM, Duncan Coutts
<duncan.coutts at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Right, then uses of fromString would require -XOverlappingInstances and
> possibly -XIncoherentInstances.

That's a bummer.

> Right. It makes me nervous too. I think what this show us is that ShowS
> should have been a newtype.

Yes, I think I just keep using dstring[1] instead.

regards,

Bas

[1] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/dstring