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= From SRFI-57 =

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. 


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= From: "Michael R. Blair" =
[http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/ftpdir/scheme-mail/HTML/rrrs-1989/msg00204.html Reference]

I am concerned that the current  proposal makes it difficult for me to treat the order of slot-names in a record as irrelevant. About  record constructor:  What I  want is  a  construction procedure wherein (arg) order is  considered irrelevent.

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2010-03-13 19:10:49