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 <gale@sefer.org> wrote:
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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