[Haskell-cafe] Alternatives to convoluted record syntax

Tim Docker twd2 at dockerz.net
Thu Jul 3 20:24:07 EDT 2008


> For access to nested record fields I implemented the record-access
> package. Unfortunately the field accessors must still be written manually.
>    http://darcs.haskell.org/record-access/src/Data/Accessor/Example.hs

I looked for this on hackage, but found instead this:

http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/data-accessor

which, unless I am mistaken, is actually a different package by Luke
Palmer, with similar intent. Should we be trying to avoid name overlaps
like this?

Tim



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