ghc-4.01, linux, binary for i386 says
panic! (the `impossible' happened):
tcLookupGlobalValue: T.name{-r1n,x-} ...
when compiling
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data S a = S {longFieldName :: a}
f :: S String -> S String
f s =
let S {name = x} = s in S {name = tail x}
name = longFieldName -- local for this module
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Otherwise, how can one introduce a short local synonym for
longFieldName ?
I thought, the record field is treated as a function ...
And the long global names for the record fields, they look in-
avoidible in Haskell-98. Because, as, say, in the above example, many
different kinds of object modelled by records are likely to have a
field called `name'.
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Sergey Mechveliani
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