Both are true, but I consider the second problem to be more like a trade off. In PHP I miss field extraction from an array so often; in Haskell it is just `map

Both are true, but I consider the second problem to be more like a trade off. In PHP I miss field extraction from an array so often; in Haskell it is just `map fieldName` and voila. Works just as well with namespaces -- I understand it does not scale when creating data types, but you normally don't import all of them at the same time into another module anyways.