On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 10:15, Yitzchak Gale <g...@sefer.org> wrote: > The only reason I don't like using OverloadedStrings > for typing string literals as Text and ByteString > is that when you turn on OverloadedStrings, you turn > it on for all types, not just Text and ByteString. > I don't want to be forced to do that. Because > all other uses of OverloadedStrings that I have > seen, and there are many, are ill-advised in my > opinion. They all should have been quasiquoters.
I don't think IsString should be dismissed so easily. I agree that instances should be total functions (and I don't like the ByteString.Char8 instance for that reason) but there are many more good use cases than Text and (UTF8) ByteStrings. For example, we have a couple of newtypes over Text that do different kinds of normalization. An IsString instance for these is useful and total. Erik _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
