[Haskell] Re: (small) records proposal for Haskell '06

This change "solves" the problem that different records in a single namespace cannot share field names in a simple manner.

As mentioned elsewhere, you'd also need to remove the functional update feature to fix this namespace problem.

In order to allow the writing of records code with is both valid Haskell 98 and valid Haskell '06, I'd suggest a pragma that causes the Haskell '06 compiler to generate the accessor functions.

I think it'd also be good to make it possible to "derive" the accessors, using the usual deriving(...) syntax. Which would be like turning on the pragma but at the granularity of a single datatype (or maybe even a single field). Stefan