from-text

Type class to convert from Text

Stackage Nightly 2026-05-24:	0.1
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Maintained by [email protected]

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Module documentation for 0.1

Data
- Data.Text
  - Data.Text.From

Depends on 5 packages(full list with versions):

base, bytestring, filepath, os-string, text

from-text

This package provides

class IsText a where
  fromText :: Text -> a

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

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

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.

Changes

0.1

Initial release.