[Haskell-cafe] Record updates

[Ryan Ingram]

Take a look at Data.Accessor on hackage:

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

  -- ryan

On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 2:13 AM, Andrew Coppin
<andrewcoppin at btinternet.com> wrote:
> Haskell's record syntax is quite nice, for a number of reasons. However,
> suppose I have some record:
>
>  data Foobar = Foobar {foo1, foo2, foo3...}
>
> Now suppose that foo3 :: [Int], and I want to prepend 5 to it. I end up
> having to write something like
>
>  let v1 = v0 {foo3 = 5 : (foo3 v0)}
>
> If the field name isn't "foo" but something more descriptive, and the
> transformation to be applied to it is more intricate, you end up with quite
> a bit of code.
>
> In summary, record syntax gives you a nice way of replacing the value of one
> field with something else, but no easy way to *modify* the existing value
> somehow.
>
> Does anybody know of a way around this? Is there some trick I'm not seeing?
> Is there an extension or proposal that fixes this?
>
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