A possible alternative to dot notation for record access

[John Wiegley]

>>>>> Edward Kmett <ekmett at gmail.com> writes:

> If you really want to hunt for unused syntax and we wind up needing a (.)
> analogue then (->) is currently a reserved operator, so opening it up for
> use at the term level could be made to work, and there is a precedent with
> c/c++ pointer dereferencing.

Imagine this possible code:

    foo :: Maybe Foo -> Bar
    foo (fromMaybe def -> x) = \x -> case x of
        Foo x -> x->y->z

I think it might get a bit ugly to give it a 5th meaning.

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