Re[2]: patch applied (haskell-prime-status): add overloaded string literals
Hello Wolfgang, Friday, April 11, 2008, 6:19:26 PM, you wrote: > Would it be possible to change the class name “IsString” to something > different? Would it be possible to remove the type alias “String” and > let “String” be the class name? Can I add this remark somewhere on the wiki? this reminds me one idea i've once proposed to discuss: allow to use class names in type signatures with obvious translation to "classic" code: putStr :: String -> IO () means putStr :: (String a) => a -> IO () writing a lot of polymorphic code for Streams lib, i've found this feature very useful - with current standard, type signatures using type classes are very hard to read: -- | Copy `size` bytes from one BlockStream to another copyStream :: (BlockStream h1, BlockStream h2, Integral size) => h1 -> h2 -> size -> IO () -- Best regards, Bulatmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Haskell-prime mailing list Haskell-prime@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-prime
Re: patch applied (haskell-prime-status): add overloaded string literals
Am Dienstag, 1. April 2008 00:31 schrieb Simon Marlow: > Mon Mar 31 15:31:44 PDT 2008 Simon Marlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * add overloaded string literals > > M ./status.hs +2 Hello, although I like overloaded string literals very much, I see one problem with the current implementation of them in GHC. It’s the class name “IsString”. No other Haskell class name I know starts with “Is”; we don’t have “IsNum”, “IsMonad”, etc. Would it be possible to change the class name “IsString” to something different? Would it be possible to remove the type alias “String” and let “String” be the class name? Can I add this remark somewhere on the wiki? Best wishes, Wolfgang ___ Haskell-prime mailing list Haskell-prime@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-prime
patch applied (haskell-prime-status): add overloaded string literals
Mon Mar 31 15:31:44 PDT 2008 Simon Marlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * add overloaded string literals M ./status.hs +2 ___ Haskell-prime mailing list Haskell-prime@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-prime
