Re: Proposal: Improving the IsString String instance

No need, they don't have the problem that started this thread. They default to Integer. Erik On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 9:30 PM, Dag Odenhall wrote:

Let's also make number literals monomorphic to Integer and provide an n :: Num a => Integer -> a!

On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 9:16 PM, Herbert Valerio Riedel wrote:

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On 2013-08-26 at 19:39:40 +0200, Henning Thielemann wrote:

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On Mon, 26 Aug 2013, Henning Thielemann wrote:

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This "opting in" already exists: Just put a space between o and the quotation mark and define "o = fromString". It's Haskell 98.

I was wrong: You even don't need the space between o and ".

it's almost perfect imho, except maybe for the minor issue that you will have to surround string literals with () or use $ sometimes, as in

length (o"Overloaded String")

cheers, hvr

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