PROPOSAL: Include record puns in Haskell 2011

[Ian Lynagh]

On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 07:07:30PM -0800, Iavor Diatchki wrote:
>
> I'd like to propose that we add record punning to Haskell 2011.
> 
> Thoughts, objections, suggestions?

I have a feeling I'm in the minority, but I find record punning an ugly
feature.

Given
    data T = C { f :: Int }
we implicitly get
    f :: T -> Int
which punning shadows with
    f :: Int
whereas I generally avoid shadowing completely.


Thanks
Ian