The Future of Haskell discussion at the Haskell Workshop

[Adrian Hey]

On Tuesday 09 September 2003 13:52, Johannes Waldmann wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Sep 2003, Adrian Hey wrote:
> > I rarely use named fields in my Haskell progs with Haskell as it is ...
>
> but you sure agree records are useful for collecting heterogenous data?

Yes, I would agree that even the current situation is sometimes better
than having a large number of unnamed fields (as a huge-tuple say).
But for the average product type or constructor (2..3 fields),
it just isn't worth the aggrovation IMO.

Regards
--
Adrian Hey