Re: Records in Haskell

2011-12-30 Thread Andriy Polischuk
You're right, i should have written "ambiguities" instead. That was not joke, just i somehow didn't notice Chris Smith answer. However, I think, there are some drawbacks in using dot for that in comparison with qualified imports access. The latter is easier to distinguish from composition by eye,

Re: Records in Haskell

2011-12-29 Thread Andriy Polischuk
Yet another idea: Consider using '\' as record access operator. No conflicts with anything at all, and, moreover, it really looks like hierarchical access. Reminds of filesystems though. Matthew Farkas-Dyck wrote > > Another thought: > Perhaps bang as record selection operator. It would avoid fu