I'm genuinely curious as to how you use maps. I've found I use them far less in Haskell than in any other language: I only use them in select circumstances. And most of those uses would not benefit from a mayo literal.
I suspect that many of the uses of map literals are better replaced with something like a record. This has the advantage of being static and more type safe. However, this is only based on my own use cases, so it's hard to generalize.
Hi,
I am terribly missing some syntactic sugar for maps (associative data structures) in Haskell. I find myself using them more than any other data structure, and I think there is no big deal in adding some sugar for this to the language. I could not find out whether such an extension is beeing discussed. If not, I would like to propose and extension. Any help and suggestions are very welcome here. Thanks.Also related to the topic:1/ Is there a list of proposals for extensions to Haskell that has currently been accepted in the new standard? I have not found one on Haskell' (http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/haskell-prime/query?status=new&status=assigned&status=reopened&group=state), but it looks outdated. No mentions to the new standard!
2/ I have seen somewhere a statement that a new language standard will be published yearly. Didn't happen until now. Is there even a new standard on the way?Cheers,Răzvan
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