GHC support for the new "record" package

[Johan Tibell]

On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 5:48 PM, Simon Marlow <marlowsd at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 21/01/2015 16:01, Johan Tibell wrote:
>
>> My thoughts mostly mirror those of Adam and Edward.
>>
>> 1) I want something that is backwards compatible.
>>
>
> Backwards compatible in what sense?  Extension flags provide backwards
> compatibility, because you just don't turn on the extension until you want
> to use it.  That's how all the other extensions work; most of them change
> syntax in some way or other that breaks existing code.


In this case in the sense of avoiding splitting code into a new-Haskell vs
old-Haskell. This means that existing records should work well (and ideally
also get the improved name resolution when used in call sites that have the
pragma enabled) in the new record system.
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