There is a page for extensible records in the wiki: http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Extensible_record
Haskell's records system has many insuficiencies. Some libraries (see grapefruit or HaskellDB) encode records as classes, but although some proposals Haskell still lacks a good implementation for extensible and updatable records. On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 10:41 AM, Andrew Coppin <andrewcop...@btinternet.com> wrote: > Ryan Ingram wrote: >> >> Take a look at Data.Accessor on hackage: >> >> http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/data-accessor >> >> http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/data-accessor-template >> > > So, to summarise, it provides a datatype to encapsulate a pair of get/set > functions, some infix sugar for using it, and some TH for autogenerating > said data. Is that about right? > > I'll have a go at trying this later... Thanks. > > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe > -- www.di.uminho.pt/~hpacheco _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
