[Haskell-cafe] Trouble understanding records and existential typesy

[John Meacham]

On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 05:03:18PM -0800, Stefan O'Rear wrote:
> Haskell-98 style records are widely acknowledged as sucking, and there are
> something like half a dozen proposals all of which are widely acknowledged
> as vastly superior.  Expect to be stuck with H98 records for the remainder
> of time; see "bikeshed".

actually, the problem is that we keep calling them records. Haskell 98
records are actually labeled fields, not records, and as labeled fields
they perform just fine.

Not that records or named tuples or whatever you like to call them
wouldn't be useful but they would likely be something in addition to labeled
fields, not replacing it. (Not that the current labeled field mechanism
couldn't be improved some.)

personally, something based on Daan's scoped labels proposal is the
clear leader of the bunch.


        John


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