2009/3/6 Wolfgang Jeltsch <[email protected]>: > Am Freitag, 6. März 2009 13:33 schrieb Matthew Pocock: >> Hi, >> >> It seems every time I look at hackage there is yet another stringy >> datatype. For lots of apps, the particular stringy datatype you use matters >> for performance but not algorithmic reasons. Perhaps this is a good time >> for someone to propose a stringy class? >> >> Matthew > > There is already the class IsString which was introduced for overloaded string > literals. > > However, the name is terrible. No other Haskell class I know of has an “Is” at > its beginning. Classes don’t name properties (IsNum, IsMonoid, Has…).
LLVM bindings use it a lot... Cheers, Thu _______________________________________________ Haskell mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell
