Hi,
we could just require ghc>=7.2 and write a Show instance for SeqData.
Then we can print everything as "Strings" and read everything as
Strings...
But of course, using ghc-7.2, the user can decide anyway, since
overlapping instances are now decided client-side.
Gruss,
Christian
>Ketil Malde <ke...@malde.org> writes:
>
>> class IsStr a b where
>> toStr :: a -> b
>> fromStr :: b -> a
>
>Maybe this is overkill. We decided on lazy bytestrings, so perhaps
>users should just Deal With It. I've now added IsString to SeqData and
>SeqLabel types, so that you can use [Char] constants, and also added
>the customary (if a bit ugly) un*-functions to the data types. So
>that it now reads:
>
> newtype SeqData = SeqData { unSD :: LC.ByteString } -- ^ Sequence
> data are lazy bytestrings of ASCII characters.
>
>Any notes or votes - pro et contra? If not, I'll tag this 0.1, and
>work to port everything else to use it.
>
>-k
>--
>If I haven't seen further, it is by standing in the footprints of
>giants
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