RE: Overloaded record fields

| Exactly! (I did tell you so: | http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Records/DeclaredOverloadedRecordFie... | billed as "optional syntactic sugar") I confess that I had not fully taken in this suggestion; thank you for reminding me. The last round exceeded my input bandwidth, and in any case I often need to be told things more than once. Anyway, glad to hear what others think about the idea. Simon