On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 1:33 PM, Wolfgang Jeltsch <g9ks1...@acme.softbase.org > wrote:
> Am Montag, den 07.11.2011, 18:16 +0100 schrieb Claus Reinke: > > > I am unsure which of this list of proposals you are referring to. The > > > URL you quote is this > > > http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/haskell-prime/wiki/FirstClassLabels > > > > That sounds familiar, I think I wrote that when I was younger;-) > > > > > but it doesn't seem to actually contain a design, merely some options > > > for a design that is implicit. > > > > Please note that this particular instance of FirstClassLabels was *not* > > about record systems themselves (already a hopeless mess of proposals > > and preferences back then), but about a feature that would help defining > > record systems *in the language*. > > Indeed. And I think it is important to make implementing new record > systems in the language easier. Each record system built into the > language might lack some features that someone wants. So it would be > good if one could come up with one’s own record system easily. > On the other hand, I would rather have one half-way decent record system that doesn't try to do everything than a bunch of ad hoc incompatible ones. -Edward
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