On 11/25/07, Thomas Hartman
I think I'm running into more or less the same issue discussed at
http://bloggablea.wordpress.com/2007/04/24/haskell-records-considered-grungy...
Just wondering if I missed anything, or if any of the ideas considering better records setter/getters have been implemented in the meantime.
Have a look at [http://code.haskell.org/category], and the associated blog posts http://twan.home.fmf.nl/blog/haskell/overloading-functional-references.detai... (http://tinyurl.com/2ustba) and http://twan.home.fmf.nl/blog/haskell/References-Arrows-and-Categories.detail... (http://tinyurl.com/2v8het) which discuss "functional references" (similar to Luke's), and include Template Haskell code for deriving more flexible accessors from a record declaration. Also check out HList [http://homepages.cwi.nl/~ralf/HList/], which can do some interesting things, provided you're willing to abandon the built-in record system. Stuart