[Haskell] Extensible records: Static duck typing

[John Meacham]

On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 08:01:07AM -0500, Cale Gibbard wrote:
> I also like this idea. Retaining the ability to treat selection as a
> function easily is quite important, and this meets that criterion
> nicely. Also, in which case does this cause a program to break? It
> seems that you're only reinterpreting what would be unterminated
> character literals.

Ah, you are right. for some reason I was thinking we allowed identifiers
to start with ', but yeah. this seems fully backwards compatable. while
we are at it, we should allow ' in infix operators to.

a *' b = almostMultiply a b

        John

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