On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 1:34 AM, John Lask <jvl...@hotmail.com> wrote: > On 11/11/2010 5:21 PM, Ketil Malde wrote: >> >> "Richard O'Keefe"<o...@cs.otago.ac.nz> writes: >> >>>> it is often desirable to have the same field names >>>> for many records in the same module. >> > > very much so, this is currently possible, with the restriction that > the field names must have the same type modulo the record it is selecting > on. > > what is disirable is that this restriction be lifted.
Haskell has a wonderful history of being careful to consider both sides of a restriction. One one hand, a restriction can make it harder to write something you want to write. On the other hand, a restriction can provide properties that make it easy to transform and reason about your program. So I am not ready to accept your claim that this is desirable without further justification. _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
