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		prof-dr-ir on Sept 21, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Haskell RecordDotSyntax language extension proposa... Could you explain why you think this proposal would help you avoid lens? If I am not mistaken all of the above code can easily be rewritten in the old syntax without using lens, so you probably have another use case in mind?

johnday on Sept 21, 2020 [–]

It is very cumbersome to write nested updates using the old syntax, and overlapping names between records was quite painful to deal with.

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