| There was some discussion on the haskell' list about bring back
| record puns, which were once in ghc.
|
| Record punning would have been very helpful on one of my recent
| projects, where I had some large arrays of statically initialized
| records.
| The
On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 12:11:23PM -, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:
I always thought it was a mistake to remove record puns in H98. I would
not be against re-introducing them into GHC, since they appear to remain
in Hugs and are in Yhc.
yes. jhc has them too and I wish ghc did.
puns like Foo
On Mon, 30 Oct 2006 16:30:42 -0800
John Meacham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 12:11:23PM -, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:
I always thought it was a mistake to remove record puns in H98. I would
not be against re-introducing them into GHC, since they appear to remain
in
Hi
puns like Foo { .. } would be great too.
I'd vote for enabling them with a command line switch, rather than by default,
as they can be confusing to folks learning the language.
How discussions come full circle :) I started this discussion on the
Hugs users list because I want to
