Am Dienstag, 22. November 2005 19:30 schrieb Greg Woodhouse:
To be honest, I haven't followed the entire records thread (at least not yet), but I don't know that it's fair to say that we've been focusing entirely (or nearly so) on lexical issues. I'll grant you that there's an awful lot of that going on, but unless I'm missin something obvious, support for a record data type isn't even a purely syntactic issue. [...]
I definitely didn't want to offend anybody, and I'm sure that there have been quite a few good (non-syntactical) proposals, but to be honest: They vanished in a sea of syntactic discussions, at least for me, and I couldn't follow the whole thread closely due to a lack of time. Hopefully somebody writes up the relevant points and proposals in a condensed form... As an aside, such heated syntactical discussions come up at least once a year on the Haskell lists for almost a decade now, and I think it is a good time to remind people about the "law" then... :-) Cheers, S.