[Haskell] Extensible records: Static duck typing
Barney Hilken
b.hilken at ntlworld.com
Tue Feb 5 06:48:04 EST 2008
> The scoped labels paper has an interesting feature in this regard:
> labels with different names can be swapped at will, but labels having
> the same name (which is allowed) maintain their order.
>
> - Cale
Yes, I know. The problem is that there are TOO MANY proposals, and
they are all fundamentally incompatible. The scoped labels idea is
interesting, but is it useful? No-one has written enough code with ANY
of the proposals to say what their strengths and weaknesses are.
Barney.
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