From-text: type class to convert from Text

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from-text

Type class to convert from Text

I released a new package which provides

class IsText a where
  fromText :: Text -> a

aiming to simplify conversion from Text to other textual data types, including ByteArray, ByteString and OsPath. It uses UTF-8 when converting to binary types without an associated encoding.

There is an overwhelming number of alternative packages for text conversions. To name a few in no particular order:

• text-conversions
• string-conv
• ttc
• text-convert
• lawful-conversions
• witch
• unwitch

At the moment none of them provide conversions from Text to OsPath. I could not decide which one to contribute such function to, so decided to create a new package.