[r6rs-discuss] Record Types

From: Ludovic Courtès <ludovic.courtes>
Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2007 14:22:51 +0200

Hi,

Michael Sperber <sperber at informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> writes:

> ludovic.courtes at laas.fr (Ludovic Court?s) writes:
>
>> Interestingly, this was the approach taken by SRFI-35, although one of
>> its authors is also the author of SRFI-9. I didn't find any clue in the
>> list archive as to why named fields were preferred over accessors.
>
> This was because the names were used to name the bits of information,
> which could be combined in various different ways through compound
> conditions. There's just no way to use positions with SRFI 35.

Right.

Thanks for the clarification,
Ludovic.
Received on Tue Aug 07 2007 - 08:22:51 UTC