[GHC] #12376: Allow function definitions in record syntax

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#12376: Allow function definitions in record syntax
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        Reporter:  Iceland_jack      |                Owner:  (none)
            Type:  feature request   |               Status:  new
        Priority:  normal            |            Milestone:
       Component:  Compiler          |              Version:  8.0.1
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Comment (by Iceland_jack):

 Replying to [comment:8 goldfire]:
 > But, @Iceland_jack, I encourage you to use the ghc-proposals process for
 ideas like this, as it's now the official place for the community to weigh
 in on new language ideas.

 I'm not sure if this is worth the effort but I did similar sugar in
 [https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-
 content/uploads/2016/02/scopedlabels.pdf Extensible records with scoped
 labels]:

 > As convenient syntactic sugar, we abbreviate the binding of a functional
 value `(l = \x1 ... xn → e)` as `(l x1 ... xn = e)`.

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