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> That the language is less safe?

Not necessarily.

> And haskell has extensible records, they are just a library like anything else:

And OCaml has monads, they are just a library like else.



Monads are arguably a library in Haskell, too... though one the standard guarantees is present, exposed by the Prelude, and relied on by a lot of code.


>Not necessarily.

Then what? You made the vague statement, make it not vague.

>And OCaml has monads, they are just a library like else.

And? I did not claim ocaml lacks monads. You claimed haskell lacks extensible records. You do understand that my post was a direct reply to what you said right? Not just some random things I felt like saying for no particular reason.




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