2011/10/6 Steffen Schuldenzucker <sschuldenzucker@uni-bonn.de>

On 10/05/2011 11:30 PM, Alberto G. Corona wrote:

if Hlist is sugarized as variable length tuples, then the initial code
would compile without noticing the use of HList...

Seems to me like the advantage of such a sugaring would be that people could use a complex framework without actually having to think about it. On the other hand, the greatest disadvantage would be that people could use a complex framework without actually having to think about it.

2011/10/5 Felipe Almeida Lessa <felipe.lessa@gmail.com
<mailto:felipe.lessa@gmail.com>>

On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 8:45 AM, Alberto G. Corona
<agocorona@gmail.com <mailto:agocorona@gmail.com>> wrote:
> If a newbie considers this as something natural, this is another
reason for
> syntactic sugaring of HList:
> http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2011-April/090986.html

Exposing newbies to HList seems like a recipe for disaster for me =).

--
Felipe.

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