On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 12:45 PM, Daniel Bergey <[email protected]> wrote:

> I thought GHC would infer the type when only one instance is in scope,
> at least in some cases, like IsString.  But I could well be wrong about
> that.
>

Typeclasses are open-world; this is not a safe assumption, since instances
are global and an instance added elsewhere at some point in the future
could therefore break your program.

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