24 Apr
2012
24 Apr
'12
1:14 p.m.
Why are potentially partial literals scarier than the fact that every value
in the language could lead to an exception when forced?
On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 5:35 AM, Yitzchak Gale
Markus Läll wrote:
You do know, that you already *can* have safe Text and ByteString from an overloaded string literal.
Yes, the IsString instances for Text and ByteString are safe (I hope).
But in order to use them, I have to turn on OverloadedStrings. That could cause other string literals in the same module to throw exceptions at run time.
-Yitz
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