Steffen wrote
> I need something like
>
> data Type = TCon String {lmtc::Maybe String} ...
>
> but this does not seem to be possible. Instead
> I have to waste identifiers:
>
> data Type = TCon {senseless::String,lmtc::Maybe String} ...
>
> Why? Are there any formal reasons against the
> above decl
...it's also not the same...for instance, in this new version you cannot
say:
> foo = bar { thing = Nothing }
which you could say given:
> data Foo = Foo String { thing :: Maybe String }
I'd guess that this is disallowed just for consistency. I think it would
just be too many rules to keep tra
Ok, I had missed something:
I can write instead:
data Type = TCon String (Maybe String) ...
and declare a function lmtc
lmtc (TCon _ x) = x
...
But why not allow syntactic sugar?
Sorry,
Steffen
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