Records in Haskell

[AntC]

AntC <anthony_clayden <at> clear.net.nz> writes:

> 
> Gábor Lehel <illissius <at> gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > ...
> > 
> > ... My main complaint against DORF is
> > that having to write fieldLabel declarations for every field you want
> > to use is onerous. If that could be solved, I don't think there are
> > any others. (But even if it can't be, I still prefer DORF.)
> > 
> 
> Thank you Gábor, I understand that 'complaint'.
> 
> I have been trying to keep the design 'clean': either the module is totally 
> DORF, or it's totally H98.
> 
> ...
> There have been several suggestions amongst the threads to mix H98-style 
> fields with DORF-style records (or perhaps I mean vice-versa!):
> * We'd need to change the record decl syntax to 'flag' DORF fields (somehow).
> ...
> There's one difficulty I can see:
> ...
> 
> Suggestions please!
> 

Wow! well thank you for all that hard thought going into my question.

I've put up a tweak to the proposal as Option Three: "Mixed In-situ and 
Declared ORF".

This does _not_ re-introduce H98 style fields, but does simulate them in a way 
that fits better with DORF.

Do I dub this MIDORF? How will the cat with the hariballs pronounce it ;-)?

[Oh, and sorry Isaac: the word count on the wiki has gone up some more.]

AntC