[Haskell-beginners] abstracting parametrized record types

[Brandon Allbery]

On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 7:31 PM, Alia <alia_khouri at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I would like to define a higher-level record type which contains,
> for configuration purposes, a certain set of jobs for execution. Let's
> say we call it a JobSet and which could possibly look like this:
>
> data JobSet = JobSet
>     { jobsetID          :: String
>     , jobsetName        :: String
>     , jobs              :: [Job]  <-- yes I know this is not legal
>     }
>

Are you sure you don't want

    data JobSet a = JobSet
      {jobsetID   :: String
      ,jobsetName :: String
      ,jobs       :: [Job a]
      }
?

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