On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 5:52 AM, Michael Snoyman <
michael@snoyman.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
> I've put up the Yesod 0.8 migration guide[1]. I'm planning on releasing this
> version of Yesod tomorrow night (Saturday, UTC+3). Now's your chance to try
> and find those last few bugs before release.
> I have one idea that I wanted to bounce around. The biggest thing in this
> release is the transition to Text. Overall, this is a good move, but it's
> just a little bit annoying to lose out on convenience functions like concat
> and ++. As a convenience, I'm considering exporting the following from the
> Yesod module:
> mconcat (from Data.Monoid)
> <> = mappend (from Data.Monoid)
> Text (the strict version, from Data.Text)
> I know there was some talk a while ago of providing a <> operator in base,
> but I haven't heard anything about it since. I think this could be a very
> nice convenience, and would appreciate feedback.
> Michael
> [1]
http://www.yesodweb.com/book/migrate7to8