Re: [Haskell-cafe] GHC rendering of non-ASCII characters configurable?

On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 2:35 AM, Richard Cobbe wrote:

Well, I initially went with String because I didn't want to clutter up my code with all of the calls to 'pack', especially around string literals. I'm open to being convinced that it's worth it to switch, though.

For string literals, you can turn on OverloadedStrings to get rid of the calls to 'pack'. Erik