This message is an attempt to comment on the relationship between the
various treatments of extensible records that have been referred to in
the past couple of days.
While the proposal on records for Haskell 2 that I just posted is
intended for a fairly wide Haskell audience, this one will
It seems to be the season for records -- three proposals already and
I'm going to add a fourth one! Phil Wadler, Martin Wehr and I have
recently completed a paper that describes a radical simplification of
type classes. We restrict overloading to functions that have the
instance type as first
