Why are potentially partial literals scarier than the fact that every value in the language could lead to an exception when forced?
Markus Läll wrote:Yes, the IsString instances for Text and ByteString are safe
> You do know, that you already *can* have safe Text and ByteString from
> an overloaded string literal.
(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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