<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">I am in favor -- I've never liked the current behavior much and will be glad to see it removed.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Richard<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Nov 4, 2020, at 11:49 AM, Spiwack, Arnaud <<a href="mailto:arnaud.spiwack@tweag.io" class="">arnaud.spiwack@tweag.io</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="">I have no strong opinion about this proposal, although removing code is always good.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I find the argument about pattern synonyms convincing, however. And the idea of using `RecordDotSyntax` and type classes to sort type-oriented disambiguation out is certainly appealing.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">So take my vote as a soft yes.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">/Arnaud<br class=""></div></div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Nov 4, 2020 at 5:09 PM Eric Seidel <<a href="mailto:eric@seidel.io" class="">eric@seidel.io</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">I agree that the current behavior is often unintuitive and would be better supported by RecordDotSyntax.<br class="">
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On Wed, Nov 4, 2020, at 10:27, Simon Peyton Jones via ghc-steering-committee wrote:<br class="">
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> As I say on the discussion thread, I’m strongly in favour.<br class="">
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> Simon<br class="">
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> *From:* ghc-steering-committee <br class="">
> <<a href="mailto:ghc-steering-committee-bounces@haskell.org" target="_blank" class="">ghc-steering-committee-bounces@haskell.org</a>> *On Behalf Of *Tom Harding<br class="">
> *Sent:* 04 November 2020 15:22<br class="">
> *To:* <a href="mailto:ghc-steering-committee@haskell.org" target="_blank" class="">ghc-steering-committee@haskell.org</a><br class="">
> *Subject:* Re: [ghc-steering-committee] Please review #366: <br class="">
> DuplicateRecordFields without ambiguous field access, Shepherd: Tom <br class="">
> Harding<br class="">
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> Hi all,<br class="">
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> I’d like to open committee discussion for *DuplicateRecordFields <br class="">
> without ambiguous field access*. Other committee members have already <br class="">
> commented, and I’ll say I’m strongly in favour of this proposal. I <br class="">
> definitely see the suggestion here as “tidying up” an unintuitive - <br class="">
> perhaps even counterintuitive - behaviour. <br class="">
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> <a href="https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/pull/366" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/pull/366</a> <br class="">
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> Thanks,<br class="">
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> Tom<br class="">
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> PS. Sorry for my recent absence; I think it has been a very strange few <br class="">
> months for all us!<br class="">
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> > On 2 Nov 2020, at 09:08, Joachim Breitner <<a href="mailto:mail@joachim-breitner.de" target="_blank" class="">mail@joachim-breitner.de</a>> wrote:<br class="">
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> > Dear Committee,<br class="">
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> > this is your secretary speaking:<br class="">
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> > DuplicateRecordFields without ambiguous field access<br class="">
> > was proposed by Adam Gundry<br class="">
> > <a href="https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/pull/366" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/pull/366</a> <<a href="https://nam06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fghc-proposals%2Fghc-proposals%2Fpull%2F366&data=04%7C01%7Csimonpj%40microsoft.com%7C943716dad34746aa01dd08d880d57d9e%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C637401003095767043%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=O7yXaTttgOLAEC36SQF%2FK9INxrBxiUazko6iEDZOMqo%3D&reserved=0" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">https://nam06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fghc-proposals%2Fghc-proposals%2Fpull%2F366&data=04%7C01%7Csimonpj%40microsoft.com%7C943716dad34746aa01dd08d880d57d9e%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C637401003095767043%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=O7yXaTttgOLAEC36SQF%2FK9INxrBxiUazko6iEDZOMqo%3D&reserved=0</a>><br class="">
> > <a href="https://github.com/adamgundry/ghc-proposals/blob/no-ambiguous-selectors/proposals/0000-no-ambiguous-field-access.rst" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">https://github.com/adamgundry/ghc-proposals/blob/no-ambiguous-selectors/proposals/0000-no-ambiguous-field-access.rst</a><br class="">
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> > I’ll propose Tom Harding as the shepherd.<br class="">
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> > Please guide us to a conclusion as outlined in <br class="">
> > <a href="https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals#committee-process" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals#committee-process</a><br class="">
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> > Thanks,<br class="">
> > Joachim<br class="">
> > -- <br class="">
> > Joachim Breitner<br class="">
> > <a href="mailto:mail@joachim-breitner.de" target="_blank" class="">mail@joachim-breitner.de</a><br class="">
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