AndrevanTonder <andre_at_het.brown.edu> writes:
> offer a very lightweight way of supporting operations on the sets,
> while remaining completely compatible with a future enumerations
> library?
If an enumerations library is in the future anyway, and one exists in
the present tense, why wait? (Unless you have a complaint about the
specific design of the R6RS library.)
> On the other hand, while I have been arguing for leaving enumerations
> out, I was wondering why enumerations, given that they are in the
> report, are not used for record field name sets, which seems to be a
> natural application of them. If they were useful for that, it might
> provide more of a rationale for having them. If, on the other hand,
> they are not useful for record field names, that would i.m.o. count
> against them.
Because the record field names are ordered, I would think.
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Cheers =8-} Mike
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