I counted about 10 people (including me) who appear to be actively keen on it on reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/2pnjdk/is_overloadedrecordfields_getting_it_into_7101/. I would guess there are others.
Dominic Steinitz [email protected] http://idontgetoutmuch.wordpress.com On 29 Dec 2014, at 12:00, [email protected] wrote: > > Message: 3 > Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2014 10:29:23 +0000 > From: Simon Peyton Jones <[email protected]> > To: Kazu Yamamoto <[email protected]>, "[email protected]" > <[email protected]>, "[email protected]" > <[email protected]> > Subject: RE: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.10.1 Release Candidate 1 > Message-ID: > > <618be556aadd624c9c918aa5d5911bef5628e...@db3prd3001mb020.064d.mgd.msft.net> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > | If I understand correctly, OverloadedRecordFields has not been merged > | yet. Are there any chances to merge it into GHC 7.10.1? > > I'm afraid not. The situation is that Adam has a fairly complete patch for > overloaded record fields, but neither he nor I are happy with it. It makes > some fairly complicated and pervasive changes, and feels like a sledgehammer > to crack a nut. We'd scheduled for Adam to spend a day at MSR for us to work > on it together, but Adam had to cancel. We'll hopefully re-arrange. > > Meanwhile it'd be motivating to know who, if anyone, is actively keen on it. > Kazu is presumably one. I expect there are others, but I couldn't list them. > _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
