Hi, I often run in to the same problem and I'm in favor of Stringable & IsString.
Best, --Nick On 14 Nov 2012, at 09:59 , Ketil Malde <ke...@malde.org> wrote: > > Hi, > > One source of ugliness in my code tends to be from having to convert > to/from sequence data types and strings. All too often, this involves > importing the correct ByteString type, and using pack/unpack etc. > > One solution is to make our types members of the Stringable class, this > contains all the obvious conversions as to/from functions. Thoughts? > > Also, we might include IsString to allow string literals. Objections? > > -k > _______________________________________________ > Biohaskell mailing list > Biohaskell@biohaskell.org > http://malde.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/biohaskell _______________________________________________ Biohaskell mailing list Biohaskell@biohaskell.org http://malde.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/biohaskell
