Re: [q-lang-users] LPs, CDs and other records

[Tim H. <q...@st...>]

Albert Graef <Dr....@t-...> writes:

> Tim Haynes wrote:
>
> > Do we have some form of record / structure data-type and associated
> > manipulation functions?
> 
> Not yet. That's something I've been thinking about lately. Might be a
> good idea to adopt an ML/Haskell-ish syntax for that. Something like:
> 
> 
> type Person = person { name, address, phone };
> 
> def AG = person { name = "Albert", address = "Mainz", phone = "???" };
> 
> That would actually be syntactic sugar for an algebraic data type with
> getter and setter functions created automatically for you. However, it's
> not yet clear to me how to extend inheritance and pattern matching to
> make this really useful.

Groovy. I like the way this is going.

Ta,

~Tim
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