Re: OverloadedLists

Somebody claiming to be Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:

The design is described here: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/OverloadedLists

Eg. you can use it for maps, so that [(1,"foo"), (4,"bar")] :: Map Int String

So, this has probably been asked before, but out of curiosity, given: instance IsList Text where type Item Text = Char fromList = Text.pack toList = Text.unpack What is the relationship to OverloadedStrings? Since "blah" is sugar for ['b','l','a','h'], could OverloadedLists also work for string literals / string patterns? -- Stephen Paul Weber, @singpolyma See http://singpolyma.net for how I prefer to be contacted edition right joseph