GHC support for the new "record" package

[Johan Tibell]

I really like this proposal (except I would bike shed about the syntax for
record selector to be dot, like in the majority of languages.)

On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 3:41 PM, Simon Peyton Jones <simonpj at microsoft.com>
wrote:

> | I just
> | noticed that it effectively gives us a syntax for identifier-like Symbol
> | singletons, which could be useful in completely different contexts
>
> Indeed so.  I have written a major increment to
>
> https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Records/OverloadedRecordFields/Redesign
> which people reading this thread may find interesting.  Look for "Plan B".
>
> For the first time I think I can see a nice, simple, elegant, orthogonal
> story.
>
> Simon
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