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

[Neil Mitchell]

Hi

> 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.

Does it make sense to have a feature that is available in Hugs and Yhc
bug not GHC? I'd suggest that if you want this feature, you try and
get it put back in for Haskell Prime. I personally have no particular
feeling one way or the other about this feature - I just want to
remove configuration flags from Yhc that no-one understands and move
towards standard Haskell.

Thanks

Neil

> 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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