This site is a static rendering of the Trac instance that was used by R7RS-WG1 for its work on R7RS-small (PDF), which was ratified in 2013. For more information, see Home. For a version of this page that may be more recent, see NaturalRecordConstructorDownsides in WG2's repo for R7RS-large.
The traditional practice of instantiating record values with a positional constructor procedure can lead to code that is hard to read and fragile under common operations such as adding, removing, or rearranging field declarations.