> The only reason I don't like using OverloadedStrings > for typing string literals as Text and ByteString > is that when you turn on OverloadedStrings, you turn > it on for all types, not just Text and ByteString. > I don't want to be forced to do that. Because > all other uses of OverloadedStrings that I have > seen, and there are many, are ill-advised in my > opinion. They all should have been quasiquoters.
Could you name some names here? Regardless of how this whole thread goes, maybe people will agree that those uses were indeed ill-advised, and we can get them fixed up. Perhaps the problem is that fromString is very easy to understand and write, but quasi-quoters sound like a whole new complicated thing to learn about. If we could either demonstrate that they're not so bad to write, or have a little library that makes them easier for "stringlike" things, then maybe we could move the first instinct away from "hack a quick fromString" to "hack a quick QQ". _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
