[Haskell-cafe] records proposals list

[Philippa Cowderoy]

On Mon, 21 Nov 2005, David Roundy wrote:

> (b) Create some sort of class that allows getter and/or setter functions
>     for field access.
> 
> (a) involves the creation of a non-function syntax for something that is
> essentially a function--and means you'll need boiler-plate code if you want
> to create accessor functions.  (b) means a proliferation of classes, which
> is perhaps more problematic, but you gain more from it

I'm not sure it's all that bad if we can avoid namespace pollution?

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