This implements the NoFieldSelectors ghc-proposal (fixes #5972 (closed)), adding an extension to disable the generation of selector functions corresponding to record fields. When this extension is enabled, record field selectors are not accessible as functions, but users are
still able to use them for record construction, pattern matching and updates. See Note [NoFieldSelectors]
in GHC.Rename.Env
for details.
Along the way, this fixes the use of non-imported DuplicateRecordFields
in GHCi with -fimplicit-import-qualified
(fixes #18729 (closed)), and slightly liberalises DisambiguateRecordFields
for updates (fixes #18999 (closed)).
Many thanks to @reactormonk and @fumieval for originally working on this. This MR is based on !4017 (closed) but I thought it best to open a new MR as I've revised it quite a bit both to incorporate !4467 (closed) and to tidy up some of the renamer logic. @reactormonk @fumieval please do feel free to review the further changes I've made.