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A comment on Haskell RecordDotSyntax language extension proposal (Accepted). Parent comment

Re:Haskell RecordDotSyntax language extension proposal (Acce... by pbiggar on Monday September 21, 2020 @11:19AM (#24544446)
Yes, the languages use immutable values so I understand the semantics.

I agree that's quite nice, however updating nested values is very painful.

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Re:Haskell RecordDotSyntax language extension proposal (Acce... by rowanG077 on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @02:43PM (#24558288)
Afaik with the New extension you can write nested updates easily as e { a.b.c = 10 } which is I think is nice.
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