Didn't Haskell make this move? But I can't find it now so might be misremembering. In Haskell, String is an alias for [Char]. Maybe it's not changing String

Didn't Haskell make this move? But I can't find it now so might be misremembering. In Haskell, String is an alias for [Char]. Maybe it's not changing String rather, encouraging other types which don't have this difficulty.