Proposal: Improving the IsString String instance

[Edward Kmett]

I don't think every web framework in the Haskell ecosystem is about to
adopt this practice, so that doesn't actually solve the problem, it merely
says the problem doesn't affect you.


On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 1:07 PM, Henning Thielemann <
schlepptop at henning-thielemann.de> wrote:

> Am 26.08.2013 18:45, schrieb Edward Kmett:
>
>  Forcing users to use signatures on every Stringand import
>> Data.Traversableand Data.Foldablequalified "works," but it is the design
>>
>> equivalent of sticking your head in the sand and pretending their we
>> don't have any problems.
>>
>
> Actually, I would not use type annotations. Instead I would avoid
> OverloadedStrings and write Text.pack where necessary. This saves me
> OverloadedStrings, the special list instance for IsString and type
> annotations. Maybe after all attempts of extending the compiler and
> patching the libraries we find that the initial solution was the best one.
>
>
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