On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 06:23:39PM +0000, Ian Lynagh wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 07:07:30PM -0800, Iavor Diatchki wrote:
> I have a feeling I'm in the minority, but I find record punning an ugly
> feature.
>
> Given
> data T = C { f :: Int }
> we implicitly get
> f :: T -> Int
> which punning shadows with
> f :: Int
> whereas I generally avoid shadowing completely.
I can see the thinking here, but I don't like for the language to try to
enforce 'style' or make decisions based on it. I think it is more in the
spirit of haskell to provide multiple mechanisms when it makes sense and
let the users figure out what works for them stylistically.
John
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