<div dir="ltr">On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 15:39, Simon Peyton-Jones <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:simonpj@microsoft.com">simonpj@microsoft.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Don't forget that with -XOverloadedStrings we already have a IsString class. (That's not a Haskell Prime extension though.)<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I think that's exactly the point; currently it uses [Char] initial format and converts at runtime, which is rather unfortunate given the inefficiency of [Char]. If it has to be done at runtime, it would be nice to at least do it from a more efficient initial format.</div>
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