12 Nov
2010
12 Nov
'10
3:29 p.m.
On 11/11/2010 11:48 PM, John Lask wrote:
again quoting
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/simonpj/Haskell/records.html
"Haskell lacks a serious record system. (The existing mechanism for named fields in data types was always seen as a stop-gap measure.)"
isn't it about time this changed?
Records do leave quite a bit to be desired. But does anybody actually have a concrete alternative proposal yet? Personally I'm not really keen on TDNR; I'd prefer records that aren't so inconvenient. But I have no idea how to design that.