The Future of Haskell discussion at the Haskell Workshop

[Johannes Waldmann]

On Tue, 9 Sep 2003, Adrian Hey wrote:

> I rarely use named fields in my Haskell progs with Haskell as it is ...

but you sure agree records are useful for collecting heterogenous data? 
for example, see data DynFlags here:

http://cvs.haskell.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/fptools/ghc/compiler/main/CmdLineOpts.lhs

> IMHO preserving the status quo wrt records should be low priority.
> It really doesn't bother me much if new (useful) language features break
> existing code. 

but this might be an issue for others, who have to maintain "legacy" code.

best regards,
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