Take a look at the record field disambiguation [1] extension to GHC.
It sounds like what you're looking for.
-deech
[1] http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/6.12.2/html/users_guide/syntax-extns.html#di...
On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 11:01 AM, Aaron Gray
Given a Haskell "record type" :- data Test = Test { name :: String, value :: Int } test = Test { name = "test", value = 1 } main :: IO () main = do putStrLn (name test) Are "name" and "value" in the global name space, as the following gives an error "Multiple declarations of `name'" :- name :: String -> String name s = s Is there any way round this ? Many thanks in advance, Aaron
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