ANNOUNCE: GHC version 7.2.1 - {-#LANGUAGE NoTraditionalRecordSyntax#-}

[AntC]

Simon Peyton-Jones <simonpj <at> microsoft.com> writes:

> 
> ghci -XNoTraditionalRecordSyntax does not complain of unsupported extensions 
for me.

OK, it's effective in v7.4.1, as Ian says.

> 
> The flag appears to just disable record construction and update syntax, and 
> record patterns, and record syntax in GADT declarations.

For the record(!) it also suppresses record syntax in ordinary data 
declarations. So it 'solves' the namespacing issue by not allowing field names 
at all.

No curly brackets, no field names nowhere! Everything has to be positional.

>  It has probably never been used.
> 

Yes, the pruning is _too_ radical, the tree withered away.

AntC