RE: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.10.1 Release Candidate 1

I counted about 10 people (including me) who appear to be actively keen on it on reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/2pnjdk/is_overloadedrecordfields_ge.... I would guess there are others. Dominic Steinitz dominic@steinitz.org http://idontgetoutmuch.wordpress.com On 29 Dec 2014, at 12:00, glasgow-haskell-users-request@haskell.org wrote:

Message: 3 Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2014 10:29:23 +0000 From: Simon Peyton Jones To: Kazu Yamamoto , "ghc-devs@haskell.org" , "glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org" Subject: RE: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.10.1 Release Candidate 1 Message-ID: <618BE556AADD624C9C918AA5D5911BEF5628E269@DB3PRD3001MB020.064d.mgd.msft.net>

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| If I understand correctly, OverloadedRecordFields has not been merged | yet. Are there any chances to merge it into GHC 7.10.1?

I'm afraid not. The situation is that Adam has a fairly complete patch for overloaded record fields, but neither he nor I are happy with it. It makes some fairly complicated and pervasive changes, and feels like a sledgehammer to crack a nut. We'd scheduled for Adam to spend a day at MSR for us to work on it together, but Adam had to cancel. We'll hopefully re-arrange.

Meanwhile it'd be motivating to know who, if anyone, is actively keen on it. Kazu is presumably one. I expect there are others, but I couldn't list them.