= Type-Indexed Records = Proposal for new Haskell record system. Record selection is simple operator. Keys are arbitrary types. Scope is controlled as scope of key types. = Basics = Type classes for types with member at 'k' {{{ class Has k v r where (.) :: r -> k -> v; }}} which means that r has member of type v with key type k, and for types with mutable member at 'k' {{{ class (Has k u r, Has k v s) => Quasifunctor k u v r s where qfmap :: k -> (u -> v) -> r -> s; }}} which means that r and s have members of types u and v, in turn, both with selector k; thus, one can mutate the member at 'k' with an arbitrary function of type u -> v, and the overall function is of type r -> s; i.e. one can lift a function of type u -> v to a function of type r -> s. A record type is of the form {{{ type R a b c ... = { X ::. a, Y ::. b, Z ::. c, ... }; }}} which automatically generates {{{ instance Has X a (R a b c ...); instance Has Y b (R a b c ...); instance Has Z c (R a b c ...); ... instance Quasifunctor X a a' (R a b c ...) (R a' b c ...); instance Quasifunctor Y b b' (R a b c ...) (R a b' c ...); instance Quasifunctor Z c c' (R a b c ...) (R a b c' ...); ... }}} == Record selection and mutation == Let {{{ type R a b c = { X ::. a, Y ::. b, Z ::. c, ... }; -- keys data X = X; data Y = Y; data Z = Z; }}} Then `r.X :: a` is the member of `r` at `X`, and `qfmap X f r` is `r` mutated by `f` at `X`; thus also for other keys `Y`, `Z`, .... We might define some sugar for `qfmap`. We can define {{{ x = X; y = Y; z = Z; }}} to allow `r.x`, `r.y`, `r.z`, ....