data X =

A1 { name :: String, d :: Double}

| A2 { name :: String, i :: Int}

| A3 { name :: String, d1 :: Double, i1 :: Int}

Now you can use `name` directly to get the string component of the different variants.

Hope that helps!

Rahul

On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 11:16 AM, <briand@aracnet.com> wrote:

Here's what I'm doing:

data X = A1 String Double | A2 String Int | A3 String Double Int

name c =
case c of
A1 name _ -> name
A2 name _ -> name
A3 name _ _ -> name

I'm sure there's a better way...
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