I really like this proposal (except I would bike shed about the syntax for
record selector to be dot, like in the majority of languages.)
On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 3:41 PM, Simon Peyton Jones
| I just | noticed that it effectively gives us a syntax for identifier-like Symbol | singletons, which could be useful in completely different contexts
Indeed so. I have written a major increment to
https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Records/OverloadedRecordFields/Redesig... which people reading this thread may find interesting. Look for "Plan B".
For the first time I think I can see a nice, simple, elegant, orthogonal story.
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