Records in Haskell

[Simon Peyton-Jones]

| Subject: Re: Records in Haskell
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| I have added my proposal to the wiki.The only downsides to it that I can see are:

Thanks to Barney for articulating a proposal for records in Haskell.  Over various plane rides and ICFP chats I've worked out some more details.  It's not as simple as I'd hoped. 

I'm underwater with stuff at the moment but I did find the time to capture a summary here
	http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Records/OverloadedRecordFields

Please do correct errors, suggest solutions, or explore variants.

Simon