I misread it as 6.1. Sorry about that. -----Original Message----- From: Stefan O'Rear [mailto:stefanor@cox.net] Sent: Saturday, November 10, 2007 6:55 PM To: Seth Kurtzberg Cc: 'Voldermort'; glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org Subject: Re: Extensible Records On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 06:35:34PM -0500, Seth Kurtzberg wrote:
Is there any chance of seeing extensible records in GHC 6.10? There seems to be widespread agreement that the current situation is unacceptable, but the official GHC policy is that there are too many good ideas to choose from - so nothing gets done! I hence humble propose that http://www.cs.uu.nl/~daan/download/papers/scopedlabels.pdf be adapted to GHC. In my naivete, I assume that porting an existing implementation would be much easier than starting from scratch. Is this reasonable?
N.B. I am aware that GHC has limited resources - many thanks to Simon & Simon and all other contributors either way.
I second this request. Yes, I know you *could* do something in a library; but it's MUCH nicer as a built-in feature. Sadly. Stefan