[r6rs-discuss] [Formal] Shorter record definition

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Name        : Andre van Tonder
Email       : andre at het.brown.edu
Type        : enhancement
Priority    : minor
Component   : records
Version     : 5.91
Pages       : 71
Dependencies: None
Summary:
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A small but significantly useful enhancement to the conciseness of the most 
common case in the implicit naming record definition layer is requested.
Description:
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There have been many complaints regarding the verbosity of the
records proposal.  Therefore, please allow the further abbreviation:
   <field-spec> ::= <identifier>
for (immutable <identifier>).  This would make the 
most common case of record definition to be significant more concise.
For example,
   (define-record-type point (fields x y))
which competes well with many common conventions.
The immutable case should be the shorter form.