This is a bit belated, but...
Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk wrote (Fri, 11 Feb 2000 04:05:58 -0800):
>
> Thu, 10 Feb 2000 23:17:13 +1100 (EST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> pisze:
>
> > Could we please have lightweight extensible records for Haskell
> > (as in the paper by (Mark|Simon Peyton) Jones in the 1999 Haskell
> > Workshop).
>
> I've read it. [...]
>
> (Not to mention that I got used to () as a unit type...)
Does the empty record type have all the properties we need from the
unit type? It certainly contains just one non-bottom value, so with a
few instance declarations, it may be a very smooth replacement.
Regards,
Tom
