Why are potentially partial literals scarier than the fact that every value in the language could lead to an exception when forced?
On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 5:35 AM, Yitzchak Gale <g...@sefer.org> wrote: > Markus Läll wrote: > > You do know, that you already *can* have safe Text and ByteString from > > an overloaded string literal. > > Yes, the IsString instances for Text and ByteString are safe > (I hope). > > But in order to use them, I have to turn on OverloadedStrings. > That could cause other string literals in the same module > to throw exceptions at run time. > > -Yitz > > _______________________________________________ > Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list > Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users >
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