Keep the present Haskell record system!

Ross Paterson ross at soi.city.ac.uk
Wed Mar 1 04:38:13 EST 2006


On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 08:26:14AM +0000, Henrik Nilsson wrote:
> I'm increasingly convinced that the records should be left alone for
> Haskell', possibly modulo some minor tweaks to polish the system.

Yes, no alternative candidate is available (specified, implemented, used).

But I wonder whether there was some problem with the has-predicate
approach described in

	http://research.microsoft.com/~simonpj/Haskell/records.html

Or perhaps it never seemed a high enough priority.



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