[R6RS] Nongenerative record-type UIDs

dyb at cs.indiana.edu dyb at cs.indiana.edu
Mon Nov 27 07:46:12 EST 2006


> I think you misunderstood me: I'm only talking about the half of
> Jaffer's proposal that I cited.  (About using #f, I share your
> objection.)  So this is all about recommendations or suggestions
> anyway, except for:
>
> > As for using the specified UID + record-type as the "real" UID, I have no
> > strong opinion at this point, although I think it's probably not very
> > useful to do so.
>
> The usefulness rests in the fact that it enables Jaffer's convention.

Okay---sorry for misunderstanding.  I'd prefer that the R6RS not even
mention using the library name (or anything else) as the UID, however;
let's let programmers determine their own conventions.

Kent



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