Records in Haskell

[Florian Weimer]

* Simon Peyton-Jones:

> Provoked the (very constructive) Yesod blog post on "Limitations of
> Haskell", and the follow up discussion, I've started a wiki page to
> collect whatever ideas we have about the name spacing issue for
> record fields.
>
>                 http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Records

I think there are is an additional approach: nested modules (multiple
modules in a single source file) combined with local imports applying
to a specific lexical scope only.  I think this is how Ocaml tackles
this issue.  It is more explicit than the approaches presented so far.