I have often wished for something like: {-# LANGUAGE StringLiteralsAs Text #-}
where all string literals like: > f = "foo" would be translated to: > f = (fromString "foo" :: Text) I find that OverloadedStrings is too general and causes ambiguous type errors. Additionally, I seldom find that I have more than one type of string literal per file. Things tend to be all String, all Text, etc. So, if I could just pick a concrete type for all the string literals in my file, I would be happy. - jeremy On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 7:20 PM, Greg Weber <g...@gregweber.info> wrote: > I would like to default IsString to use the Text instance to avoid > ambiguous type errors. > I see defaulting capability is available for Num. Is there any way to > do this for IsString? > > Thanks, > Greg Weber > > _______________________________________________ > Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list > Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users