On Mon, 6 Sep 2010, Stefan Holdermans wrote:

Wolfgang,

We should definitely get rid of these Is* class identifiers like
IsString and IsList. We also don’t have IsNum, IsMonad, etc.

I see your point. For strings, however, there was of course never the possibility to dub the class String as that name is already taken by the type synonym.

StringLike would have been an alternative.
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