On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 05:03:18PM -0800, Stefan O'Rear wrote:
Haskell-98 style records are widely acknowledged as sucking, and there are something like half a dozen proposals all of which are widely acknowledged as vastly superior. Expect to be stuck with H98 records for the remainder of time; see "bikeshed".
actually, the problem is that we keep calling them records. Haskell 98 records are actually labeled fields, not records, and as labeled fields they perform just fine. Not that records or named tuples or whatever you like to call them wouldn't be useful but they would likely be something in addition to labeled fields, not replacing it. (Not that the current labeled field mechanism couldn't be improved some.) personally, something based on Daan's scoped labels proposal is the clear leader of the bunch. John -- John Meacham - ⑆repetae.net⑆john⑈