In that hypothetical context, the field name wouldn't be usable as a function—at least without future Dependent Haskell.

On Mon, Sep 20, 2021, 1:19 PM Tom Ellis <tom-lists-haskell-cafe-2017@jaguarpaw.co.uk> wrote:
On Mon, Sep 20, 2021 at 01:13:43PM -0400, David Feuer wrote:
> Does one field name for one datatype always refer to a field with the same
> type? Or is there some wacky extension that would allow things like
>
> data Foo
>   = Bar { zoom :: Int }
>   | Baz { zoom :: Char }
>
> I'm hoping I don't have to worry about the latter possibility....

Me too!  Under such circumstances what would the type of
field-as-function be?
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