#9649: symbols should/might be type level lists of chars -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: ibotty | Owner: ibotty Type: feature | Status: new request | Milestone: 7.10.1 Priority: normal | Version: Component: Compiler | Keywords: Resolution: | Architecture: Unknown/Multiple Operating System: | Difficulty: Unknown Unknown/Multiple | Blocked By: Type of failure: | Related Tickets: None/Unknown | Test Case: | Blocking: | Differential Revisions: | -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Comment (by goldfire): I agree in that I find the impedance mismatch between term-level `String`s and type-level `Symbol`s a little annoying. But, there's a fairly sensible workaround: use lists of one-character symbols. A little quasi-quoting to ease the syntactic pain and you can get fairly far. I would still rather, of course, built-in support. -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/9649#comment:1 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler