I have often wished for something like: {-# LANGUAGE StringLiteralsAs Text #-} where all string literals like:
f = "foo"
would be translated to:
f = (fromString "foo" :: Text)
I find that OverloadedStrings is too general and causes ambiguous type
errors. Additionally, I seldom find that I have more than one type of
string literal per file. Things tend to be all String, all Text, etc.
So, if I could just pick a concrete type for all the string literals
in my file, I would be happy.
- jeremy
On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 7:20 PM, Greg Weber
I would like to default IsString to use the Text instance to avoid ambiguous type errors. I see defaulting capability is available for Num. Is there any way to do this for IsString?
Thanks, Greg Weber
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