Markus Läll wrote: > What can go wrong when you use an overloaded string to be fromString'd > into Text?
Here's an example: The author of the xml-types package provides an IsString instance for XML names, so you can conveniently represent XML names as string literals in your source code. But not every string is a valid XML name. If you mistype the literal, your program will still compile. It may even run for a while. But when someone uses your program in a way that causes that mistyped XML name literal to be resolved, your program will likely crash, unless you structured it in a way that allows that XML name literal to be wrapped in an appropriate exception handler in the IO monad. -Yitz _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
