I've always been happy with the simplicity of using modules as namespaces for this. Give each data type its own module, and import qualified to avoid name clashes. If you're doing something specific to a single type, you can import unqualified and not use the prefix. The only downside is that you can't make a singe module re-exporting all the types, since you can't re-export prefixed.

If this field has the same meaning in each data type, and you need to write functions that are generic over all of them, go with a type class.

Cheers,

Erik

On Wed, 29 Jan 2020 at 15:13, Jean Lopes <hawu.bnu@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi!

I'm trying to encode a domain which is full of simple records, and a lot of field name clashes.

Here is a simple example, a.k.a. 1:1 with the domain-spec:

data C001 {
-- other stuff
indMov :: Bool
}
data C170 {
-- other stuff
indMov :: Bool
}

There is ~148 records with this field (indMov), all with the same meaning. What are my options to encode this in Haskell?

- Prefix all record fields to avoid name clashes?
- Use DuplicateRecordFields?
- Typeclasses???
- other options I am not aware of?

which would you prefer? and why of course :)

Thanks,
Jean Lopes

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