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I'll consider Haskell for serious programming when (and if) it gets a decent record system. http://bloggablea.wordpress.com/2007/04/24/haskell-records-consider

• nandemo 14y ago
  That blog post seems fairly outdated. There are several lenses libraries that provide decent record support: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5767129/lenses-fclabels-data-accessor-which-library-for-structure-access-and-mutatio http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5767129/lenses-fclabels-d... Personally, I'd much rather have a better baked-in record system, but that's unlikely to change substantially now.
  • applicative 14y ago
    The state of the art is the amazing `lens` package https://github.com/ekmett/lens/wiki/Overview https://github.com/ekmett/lens/wiki/Overview . See this example, https://github.com/ekmett/lens/blob/master/examples/Pong.hs https://github.com/ekmett/lens/blob/master/examples/Pong.hs
    • Qerub 14y ago
      Looks great! I hope it gets more broadly adopted. Thanks for sharing.
  • Qerub 14y ago
    The post might be old, but AFAIK there have been no significant changes in the built-in record system since. Sure, there are great lens libraries but until the Haskell community blesses one of them the result is a mess of many incompatible record systems. Not exactly the best way to foster a thriving open source community.