Hi all,

There are multiple string types in Haskell – String, lazy/strict ByteString, lazy/strict Text to name a few. So to make a string handling function maximally reusable, it needs to support multiple string types.

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It seems StringLike type class is quite generic but it is used only in the TagSoup package. This makes me wonder what is the idiomatic way to support multiple string types in Haskell. What other approaches do we have?