Records in Haskell

[Christopher Done]

TRex is already mentioned on the wiki as coming at a too high
implementation cost.

2011/9/15 J. Garrett Morris <jgmorris at cs.pdx.edu>:
> On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 6:03 AM, Barney Hilken <b.hilken at ntlworld.com> wrote:
>> The right way to deal with records is first to agree a mechanism for
>> writing a context which means
>>
>>        "a is a datatype with a field named n of type b"
>>
>> then give the selector n the type
>>
>>        "a is a datatype with a field named n of type b" => n :: a -> b
>>
>> There is no reason why this shouldn't be used with the current syntax
>> (although it might clash with more advanced features like first-class
>> labels).
>
> Trex is one existing approach in the Haskell design space
> http://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~mpj/pubs/polyrec.html
> http://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~mpj/pubs/lightrec.html
>
>  /g
>
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