[Haskell-cafe] Records (was Re: [Haskell] Improvements to GHC)

[Chris Kuklewicz]

Would the record system describe at
http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/view/1119
also be convertable "into System Fw, GHC's existing, strongly-typeed
intermediate language." ?





On Thu, November 17, 2005 17:56, Sebastian Sylvan said:
> On 11/17/05, Greg Woodhouse <gregory.woodhouse at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>> Isn't there a potential for confusion with function composition (f . g)?
>>
>> That being said, I like this idea (I just need to think it through a
>> bit).
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> I've been wanting this for ages. It's SO much better than the current
> horribly broken records we have.
> There could be confusion with function composition, but there's no
> ambiguity (compositon have spaces around the dot, while record
> accessors do not).
> Personally I think that the dot is way to good of a symbol to be
> "wasted" on function composition. I mean, how often do you really use
> function composition in a way which doesn't obfuscate your code? I use
> ($) way more often than (.). Some people do use it more often than I
> do, but I find that in most cases except simple "pipelined" functions
> it only makes the code harder to read.
> I'd rather function composition was left out of the prelude
> alltogether (or defined as (#) or something).
>
> Anyway. The current records system is a wart.
>
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>> Joel Reymont <joelr1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I second this motion! I rather like Simon's proposal.
>>
>> On Nov 17, 2005, at 5:00 PM, Fraser Wilson wrote:
>>
>> > Yeah, I thought you might have tried that at some point :-)
>> >
>> > I like
>> http://research.microsoft.com/~simonpj/Haskell/records.html
>> >
>> > cheers,
>> > Fraser.
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>> ==> Gregory Woodhouse  <gregory.woodhouse at sbcglobal.net>
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>> "Interaction is the mind-body problem of computing."
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>> --Philip Wadler
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