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

Gwern Branwen wrote:

I think this would be very nice in GHCi, because there the situation is even *worse*.

I think we've all experienced importing Data.Map or Data.ByteString and discovering we need to tediously write it out in *full*, because we can't even do qualified imports of it!

Amen to that! Data.ByteString.Lazy.pack "Hello " Data.ByteString.Lazy.++ Data.ByteString.Lazy.pack "World!"