27 Mar
2012
27 Mar
'12
1:40 a.m.
No-one's yet argued against OverloadedStrings. I think there /is/ an argument to be made, that it introduces ambiguity and could break existing programs (probably we can extend defaulting to take care of
Definitely, I have ones that would need some :: sprinkled in.
this, but I think there are people who'd be happier if we killed defaulting too). Too much polymorphism /can/ be a bad thing. But I
Also me :) I'd like that 'default' keyword back too, it's too useful for variables names to waste on something so obscure. That said, I like OverloadedStrings.