Re: PROPOSAL: deprecate field labels as selectors (was Include field label puns in Haskell 2011

Evan Laforge writes:

That's a good point, but even if not totally logical I think the automatic "Rec -> X" function is more important than the X meaning.

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It might be nice to do the same with update functions, but those aren't even generated automatically (anyone got a generics thing that cranks those out?).

See my other post for a way of doing both of these. -- Jón Fairbairn Jon.Fairbairn@cl.cam.ac.uk