[Hugs-users] Record puns, time for removal?

[Iavor Diatchki]

Hello,
This feature was removed from Haskell (I was never sure why).
However, I think it is a handy feature and should certainly not be
removed if it is already implemenetd.
-Iavor

On 10/27/06, Neil Mitchell <ndmitchell at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was just looking into Yhc and noticed that it supports record puns,
> for example the following code:
>
> ------
> module Main where
> data Point = Point {x :: Int, y :: Int}
> main = print $ f $ Point 1 2
> f (Point{x}) = x
> ------
>
> Works fine in Yhc and Hugs, but not in GHC. Is this feature
> supported/encouraged or is it depreciated and scheduled for removal? I
> am tempted to remove this feature from Yhc since it seems no one uses
> it, and GHC doesn't know about it, but was wondering what the Hugs
> plans were for it first.
>
> Thanks
>
> Neil
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