Took me a minute or two! Technically these are both string coercion?
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No, in Haskell strings are represented as lists of characters. This was cute at the time it was designed, but horrible in the current world of Unicode. Also terrible for performance. Thankfully you can now use a better representation via the Text package.
Do you still have to enable OverloadedStrings to make string literals not terrible?
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Yup, that's correct!
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Dang, it's been 11 years. You'd think by now it'd just be default
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