24 Dec
2014
24 Dec
'14
9:15 a.m.
Kazu Yamamoto
No, it is a big change and the merge window is closed now. This question was just asked on reddit:
http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/2pnjdk/is_overloadedrecordfields_ge...
Greg, thank you for this info. But it is really disappointing.
I was silent about this because it is promised that ORF is included in GHC 7.10. If I knew that active feedback was necessary, I could be vocal.
--Kazu
Hi Kazu, You are not the only one that is disappointed. Records have long been a wart in Haskell (and by long I mean 25+ years). Perhaps the readers of this list could read the reddit comments and propose a way forward? Dominic.