Proposal: Improving the IsString String instance

[Dag Odenhall]

Let's also make number literals monomorphic to Integer and provide an n ::
Num a => Integer -> a!


On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 9:16 PM, Herbert Valerio Riedel <hvr at gnu.org> wrote:

> On 2013-08-26 at 19:39:40 +0200, Henning Thielemann wrote:
> > On Mon, 26 Aug 2013, Henning Thielemann wrote:
> >
> >> This "opting in" already exists: Just put a space between o and the
> >> quotation mark and define "o = fromString". It's Haskell 98.
> >
> > I was wrong: You even don't need the space between o and ".
>
> it's almost perfect imho, except maybe for the minor issue that you will
> have to surround string literals with () or use $ sometimes, as in
>
>   length (o"Overloaded String")
>
> cheers,
>   hvr
>
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