Re: [Haskell-cafe] language proposal: ad-hoc overloading

Andrew Coppin wrote:

This quickly boils down to an argument along the lines of "Haskell doesn't support container neutrality very well", which as I understand it is already a known problem.

In all fairness, this complaint boils down to "there is no container typeclass" -- a nuisance but not a failure of the language per se. Likewise, there is no typeclass which gathers together the more useful similarities of ByteString and String. -- _jsn