As long as no-one is tempted to create "instance IsChar Word8", I'll be happy. Have you considered possible type ambiguity issues? There may be a case for generalising "++" to the Monoid class, but that might not work well with this. -- Ashley Yakeley Lennart Augustsson wrote:
There will never be any implicit conversion. Any overloading you create will have to decide how to treat the [Char].
-- Lennart
On Nov 14, 2006, at 17:42 , Ashley Yakeley wrote:
Lennart Augustsson wrote:
I think it's time that string literals got overloaded just like numeric literals.
I'm suspicious, but as long as a Char is never ever implicitly coverted to an integer type such as Word8, I suppose it might be OK.
I will rant about this on request.
--Ashley Yakeley
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