[Haskell-cafe] OverloadedRecordFields in GHC 8.2.1-rc2

[aditya siram]

Is this a mistake in the release candidate announcement? It pretty clearly
states:

"""

This release will feature,
  ...

  * Overloaded record fields
"""

Thanks!

-deech


On Sun, May 21, 2017 at 4:33 PM, Brandon Allbery <allbery.b at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Sun, May 21, 2017 at 5:20 PM, aditya siram <aditya.siram at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I'm trying out the GHC 8.2.1 release candidate [1], added
>> 'OverloadedRecordFields' and I get an error saying it's an 'Unsupported
>> Extension'. Am I doing something wrong?
>
>
> This is not in 8.2, it may be in 8.4.
>
> (The Status page is confusing: it has a header for it, but the text says:
> "...but no OverloadedRecordFields extension or...". Perhaps the header
> should be changed to "Progress on overloaded record fields"?)
>
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