Re: Keep the present Haskell record system!

On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 08:26:14AM +0000, Henrik Nilsson wrote:

I'm increasingly convinced that the records should be left alone for Haskell', possibly modulo some minor tweaks to polish the system.

Yes, no alternative candidate is available (specified, implemented, used). But I wonder whether there was some problem with the has-predicate approach described in http://research.microsoft.com/~simonpj/Haskell/records.html Or perhaps it never seemed a high enough priority.