I'm the one arguing in defense of the current state of OverloadedStrings, and no secret that Yitz has been the main opponent of it.
For what I understand, and putting words in his mouth, he wants to write `"<something=illegal>" :: XML' and have the compiler tell him at compile-time that this is not valid XML (if it actually is, imagine that there's something invalid between the double quotes). I.e he wants to parse the string at compile-time and have the compilation fail if the parse fails, or have the string literal be replaced by the syntax tree of that XML if it succeeds.* This example is meta-programming par excellence, which is what Template Haskell is for -- use it. If I have a correct understanding of what Yitz has in mind, then this is why *I'm* having this argument. In all due respect, Yitz, correct me if I've got something wrong! * Parsing is a partial function. -- Markus Läll _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
