No particular reason. There is an accepted GHC proposal to relax this
restriction [1], as well as an accompanying GHC issue [2], but it has not
yet been implemented.
Ryan S.
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[1]
https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/blob/master/proposals/0170-unrestricted-overloadedlabels.rst
[2]
Dear Haskell-Café / GHC devs,
Is there any reason why the `OverloadedHaskell` extension does not work
with labels starting with an uppercase letter?
Kind regards,
Alejandro
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