Re: [Haskell] Libraries mailing list

2005-12-08 Thread Rob Ennals
Hi Krasmir, It is possible that you may be running up against one of GMail's ideosynchrosies. I have found that GMail tries to avoid showing multiple copies of the same mail. In particular, if one sends a mail to a list that one is subscribed to, one will not see a second copy of the mail when it

Re: Records (was Re: [Haskell] Improvements to GHC)

2005-11-28 Thread Rob Ennals
On 11/28/05, Wolfgang Jeltsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > As I already said, this approach may lead to mixing different concepts. > Example: > > data Person = Person { name :: String } > data File = File { name :: String } > > A field identifier has to be seen in context of the d

Re: Records (was Re: [Haskell] Improvements to GHC)

2005-11-27 Thread Rob Ennals
On 11/23/05, David Roundy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 02:32:47PM +0000, Rob Ennals wrote: [snip] > > 1. Field namespaces: solved by using type classes > > But these classes are required to be manually specified, right? This avoids > the pro

Re: Records (was Re: [Haskell] Improvements to GHC)

2005-11-23 Thread Rob Ennals
Hi guys, Since discussion has returned to records, it might be useful for me to post a link to a proposal that I knocked up a while back when this topic came up a few years ago: http://www.cambridge.intel-research.net/~rennals/records.pdf The basic idea is to keep records largely as they are, bu