[ghc-steering-committee] Please review #366: DuplicateRecordFields without ambiguous field access, Shepherd: Tom Harding

[Alejandro Serrano Mena]

I have never used DuplicateRecordFields, but this simplification makes
sense to me.

Alejandro

El mié., 4 nov. 2020 a las 19:02, Richard Eisenberg (<rae at richarde.dev>)
escribió:

> I am in favor -- I've never liked the current behavior much and will be
> glad to see it removed.
>
> Richard
>
> On Nov 4, 2020, at 11:49 AM, Spiwack, Arnaud <arnaud.spiwack at tweag.io>
> wrote:
>
> I have no strong opinion about this proposal, although removing code is
> always good.
>
> 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.
>
> So take my vote as a soft yes.
>
> /Arnaud
>
> On Wed, Nov 4, 2020 at 5:09 PM Eric Seidel <eric at seidel.io> wrote:
>
>> I agree that the current behavior is often unintuitive and would be
>> better supported by RecordDotSyntax.
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 4, 2020, at 10:27, Simon Peyton Jones via
>> ghc-steering-committee wrote:
>> >
>> > As I say on the discussion thread, I’m strongly in favour.
>> >
>> >
>> > Simon
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > *From:* ghc-steering-committee
>> > <ghc-steering-committee-bounces at haskell.org> *On Behalf Of *Tom Harding
>> > *Sent:* 04 November 2020 15:22
>> > *To:* ghc-steering-committee at haskell.org
>> > *Subject:* Re: [ghc-steering-committee] Please review #366:
>> > DuplicateRecordFields without ambiguous field access, Shepherd: Tom
>> > Harding
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Hi all,
>> >
>> > I’d like to open committee discussion for *DuplicateRecordFields
>> > without ambiguous field access*. Other committee members have already
>> > commented, and I’ll say I’m strongly in favour of this proposal. I
>> > definitely see the suggestion here as “tidying up” an unintuitive -
>> > perhaps even counterintuitive - behaviour.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/pull/366
>> > <
>> 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%7C637401003095757046%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=8T%2FxKBAkwtJgmCeg0%2BIr8IuOURniTXvGd%2F7%2FbIgbcGg%3D&reserved=0>
>>
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> >
>> > Tom
>> >
>> >
>> > PS. Sorry for my recent absence; I think it has been a very strange few
>> > months for all us!
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > > On 2 Nov 2020, at 09:08, Joachim Breitner <mail at joachim-breitner.de>
>> wrote:
>> > >
>> > > Dear Committee,
>> > >
>> > > this is your secretary speaking:
>> > >
>> > > DuplicateRecordFields without ambiguous field access
>> > > was proposed by Adam Gundry
>> > > https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/pull/366 <
>> 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
>> >
>> > >
>> https://github.com/adamgundry/ghc-proposals/blob/no-ambiguous-selectors/proposals/0000-no-ambiguous-field-access.rst
>> > >
>> > > I’ll propose Tom Harding as the shepherd.
>> > >
>> > > Please guide us to a conclusion as outlined in
>> > > https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals#committee-process
>> > >
>> > > Thanks,
>> > > Joachim
>> > > --
>> > > Joachim Breitner
>> > >  mail at joachim-breitner.de
>> > >  http://www.joachim-breitner.de/
>> > >
>> > >
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