Re: User-defined record types, v2

[Lars Brinkhoff <lars@nocrew.org>]

Lars Brinkhoff wrote:
> Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> So if this is in a different file from the one that does the
>> `cl-defstruct` you can end up with a situation where the
>> `cl-define-struct` defines a new-style struct (because it was recently
>> recompiled), while some code constructs old style structs of that
>> same type (because it hasn't been recompiled recently).
>
> Or check something in the .elc file when it's loaded.  The Emacs
> version number is there

I'm trying to make progress on this.  If we bump the version of the
generated elc files from 23 to 24, we can check for that.

I pushed a commit to scratch/record which does this.  I'm not at all
sure if this is the right way to do it.  It does seem to work as
intended, and not break anything else.