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Or you use -XOverloadedStrings and then you also have in Haskell multiple representations that follow a single polymorphic interface.

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It does not. -XOverloadedStrings unlocks `fromString :: String -> a.` That is not a polymorphic string interface; it's just syntax sugar for making something else from a string literal.

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