Better Records was Re: [Haskell-cafe] Type Directed Name Resolution

[Andrew Coppin]

On 11/11/2010 11:48 PM, John Lask wrote:
> again quoting
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> http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/simonpj/Haskell/records.html 
>
>
> "Haskell lacks a serious record system. (The existing mechanism for 
> named fields in data types was always seen as a stop-gap measure.)"
>
> isn't it about time this changed?

Records do leave quite a bit to be desired. But does anybody actually 
have a concrete alternative proposal yet?

Personally I'm not really keen on TDNR; I'd prefer records that aren't 
so inconvenient. But I have no idea how to design that.