24 Feb
2010
24 Feb
'10
2:35 p.m.
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 11:03 AM, John Meacham
This isn't so much a proposal as a recommendation for terminology we use when talking about things on the list and proposals in general. Calling haskell's labeled field mechanism 'records' leads to all sorts of confusion for people that come from other languages where 'records' means something else, this is compounded by the fact there are several actual record proposals out there that are orthogonal to labeled fields, but calling fields 'records' confuses this issue.
Just out of curiosity, what are the attributes associated with "labeled fields" and what are the ones associated with "records"?