[Haskell] Proposal: Allow "\=" for field update in record update syntax

[Benjamin Franksen]

Two clarifications:

On Saturday 19 February 2005 22:33, Benjamin Franksen wrote:
> 	instance RecordField R Label_field1 T1 where
> 	  getField (Rec x _) _ = x
> 	  putField (Rec _ y) _ v = Rec v x

s/Rec/R/

> I wonder if something similar could be done with TH. The labels would need
> to have a different name (e.g. l_field1, l_field2), so they don't collide
> with their Haskell98 definitions, but otherwise everything should be as
> above.

What I mean is: keep the record syntax and everything as it is now, but 
additionally use TH in order derive the corresponding first class labels as 
indicated above. The question is if a function 'generateLabels' can be 
defined with TH. I remember darkly that TH is (or once was) restricted to 
Haskell98, and so cannot be used to generate multi parameter class instances.

Ben