Re: [Haskell-cafe] makeFields without lenses

Il giorno 04/ott/2014, alle ore 13:03, Benjamin Edwards ha scritto:

The compiler automatically provides accessor functions already. You can't have more than one function with the same name in the same module without a qualified import.

Yes, that’s exactly the problem solved by makeFields. You declare the fields with a different name for each type but you get a lens with the same name for each type by declaring the suitable type class and instances. What I was asking is if is it possible to do the same generating simple functions instead of lenses. The functions generated by the compiler with the record syntax are not what I want, because the name must be unique for any single type.

Ben

Thanks, Nicola