On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 2:25 AM, Simon Marlow <simon...@microsoft.com> wrote: > Is there a reason not to put all these methods in the IsString class, with > appropriate default definitions? You would need a UTF-8 encoder (& decoder) > of course, but it would reduce the burden on clients and improve backwards > compatibility.
That sounds fine to me. I'm leaning towards only having unpackUTF8String (in addition to the existing method), as in the absence of proper byte literals we would have literals which change types, depending on which bytes they contain*. Ugh! * Is it even possible to create non-UTF8 literals without using escaped sequences? -- Johan _______________________________________________ Haskell-prime mailing list Haskell-prime@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-prime
