PROPOSAL: deprecate field labels as selectors (was Include field label puns in Haskell 2011

[Jon Fairbairn]

Evan Laforge <qdunkan at gmail.com>
writes:
> That's a good point, but even if not totally logical I think the
> automatic "Rec -> X" function is more important than the X meaning.

[...]

> It might be nice to do the same with update functions, but those
> aren't even generated automatically (anyone got a generics thing that
> cranks those out?).

See my other post for a way of doing both of these.

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Jón Fairbairn                                 Jon.Fairbairn at cl.cam.ac.uk