<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><div><div><div>> These users tend to be the users who are most vulnerable from the standpoint of not knowing</div><div>> what is happening to them. They just see that Haskell "doesn't work" and go back to Ruby.</div></div></div><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><br></div><div>(Laughing Out Loud) It is not just me then.</div></div></div></div></span><div><br></div><div>Really I would consider taking a page out of the Ruby pragmatic playbook and recognise the importance of both monomorphic strings and overloaded strings and provide a separate syntax for either overloaded strings or good ole lists of Unicode points (to which I have an irrational sentimental attachment).</div><div><br></div><div>Otherwise my vote is vote for the balance of the less surprises and less generality of Edward's proposal (+1).</div><div><br></div><div>Chris</div><div><br></div></body></html>