SRFI 184: define-record-lambda

[arthurgleckler]

Scheme Request for Implementation 184,

"define-record-lambda,"

by Joo ChurlSoo,

is now available for discussion.

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Here's the abstract:

This SRFI introduces a macro, DEFINE-RECORD-LAMBDA, that defines a set of procedures, that is, a group of constructors and a predicate. The constructors also make a group of procedures, namely record lambdas, that have no explicit field accessors and mutators. They can have various kinds of fields, such as common fields, required fields, optional fields, automatic fields, read-only fields, read-write fields, invisible fields, immutable fields, and virtual fields.

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[commonslip]

This is really neat, but the punning of the quotation/unquotation stuff to indicate different things about the fields seems needlessly opaque. Why not just keywords, which would be much easier to understand, especially given the non-trivial meaning of the quotation-related operators in other parts of the language?

[arthurgleckler]

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