In light of the burgeoning length of the ongoing record discussion sparked off by Simon Peyton-Jones in October, I would like to propose that we recognize an extension to Wadler's law (supplied in bold), which I'll refer to as the "Weak Record Conjecture" below.
In any language design, the total time spent discussing a feature in this list is proportional to two raised to the power of its position.
- 0. Semantics
- 1. Syntax
- 2. Lexical syntax
- 3. Lexical syntax of comments
- 4. Semantics of records