Hello Neil, Friday, October 27, 2006, 7:57:54 PM, you wrote:

I was just looking into Yhc and noticed that it supports record puns,

f (Point{x}) = x

Works fine in Yhc and Hugs, but not in GHC. Is this feature supported/encouraged or is it depreciated and scheduled for removal? I am tempted to remove this feature from Yhc since it seems no one uses it, and GHC doesn't know about it, but was wondering what the Hugs plans were for it first.

i've used it a lot in my program until i switched to ghc and was forced to rewrite all this code. if it is possible, i ill vote to add ghc support for this feature. i don't propose it for h' because current records implementation in haskell seems like somewhat temporary solution -- Best regards, Bulat mailto:Bulat.Ziganshin@gmail.com

Hello, This feature was removed from Haskell (I was never sure why). However, I think it is a handy feature and should certainly not be removed if it is already implemenetd. -Iavor On 10/27/06, Neil Mitchell wrote:

Hi,

I was just looking into Yhc and noticed that it supports record puns, for example the following code:

------ module Main where data Point = Point {x :: Int, y :: Int} main = print $ f $ Point 1 2 f (Point{x}) = x ------

Works fine in Yhc and Hugs, but not in GHC. Is this feature supported/encouraged or is it depreciated and scheduled for removal? I am tempted to remove this feature from Yhc since it seems no one uses it, and GHC doesn't know about it, but was wondering what the Hugs plans were for it first.

Thanks

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On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 04:57:54PM +0100, Neil Mitchell wrote:

I was just looking into Yhc and noticed that it supports record puns, for example the following code:

------ module Main where data Point = Point {x :: Int, y :: Int} main = print $ f $ Point 1 2 f (Point{x}) = x ------

Works fine in Yhc and Hugs, but not in GHC. Is this feature supported/encouraged or is it depreciated and scheduled for removal? I am tempted to remove this feature from Yhc since it seems no one uses it, and GHC doesn't know about it, but was wondering what the Hugs plans were for it first.

It was removed in Haskell 98 (Hugs only allows it in -98 mode): http://www.cs.chalmers.se/~rjmh/Haskell/Messages/Decision.cgi?id=372 It's probably not coming back, it's incompatible, and it's only a minor shortcut: it might as well go.