[Hugs-users] Record puns, time for removal?

[Seth Kurtzberg]

On Mon, 30 Oct 2006 16:30:42 -0800
John Meacham <john at repetae.net> wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 12:11:23PM -0000, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:
> > I always thought it was a mistake to remove record puns in H98.  I would
> > not be against re-introducing them into GHC, since they appear to remain
> > in Hugs and are in Yhc.
> 
> yes. jhc has them too and I wish ghc did.
> 
> puns like Foo { .. } would be great too.

I'd vote for enabling them with a command line switch, rather than by default, as they can be confusing to folks learning the language.

Seth

> 
> I made this page on the wiki to record fixes to the record system:
> 
> http://haskell.galois.com/cgi-bin/haskell-prime/trac.cgi/wiki/ExistingRecords
> 
> most would be pretty straightforward to implement.
> 
>         John
> 
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