Name conflicts in Haskell records

Question

Haskell doesn\'t have dot notation for record members. For each record member a compiler creates a function with the same name with a type RecType -> FieldType. This leads

Answer 1

For large projects, I prefer to keep each type in its own module and use Haskell's module system to namespace accessors for each type.

For example, I might have some type A in module A:

-- A.hs

data A = A
    { field1 :: String
    , field2 :: Double
    }

... and another type B with similarly-named fields in module B:

-- B.hs

data B = B
    { field1 :: Char
    , field2 :: Int
    }

Then if I want to use both types in some other module C I can import them qualified to distinguish which accessor I mean:

-- C.hs
import A as A
import B as B

f :: A -> B -> (Double, Int)
f a b = (A.field2 a, B.field2 b)

Unfortunately, Haskell does not have a way to define multiple name-spaces within the same module, otherwise there would be no need to split each type in a separate module to do this.