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List:       hugs-users
Subject:    RE: [Hugs-users] Record puns, time for removal?
From:       "Simon Peyton-Jones" <simonpj () microsoft ! com>
Date:       2006-10-30 12:11:23
Message-ID: 036EAC76E7F5EC4996A3B3C3657D4116070D5BF4 () EUR-MSG-21 ! europe ! corp ! microsoft ! com
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| There was some discussion on the haskell' list about bring back
| record puns, which were once in ghc.
|=20
| Record punning would have been very helpful on one of my recent
| projects, where I had some large arrays of statically initialized
| records.
| The longFieldSelectorNamesToAvoidNamespaceClashes are just
| noise is such a case.

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.

Simon

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