From: HiPhish <hiphish@posteo.de>
To: guile-user@gnu.org
Subject: What should the constructor for a record look like?
Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2018 15:04:44 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1617672.9nuLs2ACSm@aleksandar-ixtreme-m5740> (raw)
Hello, it's me again, the guy who wants to implement MessagePack [1] in Guile.
The specification defines a type of "extension" [2], a pair of an 8-bit
integer and a byte array for data. Implementing this type as a record is
obvious, but what should be the name of the constructor?
(define-record-type ext
(make-ext type data)
ext?
(type ext-type)
(data ext-data))
Either `make-ext` or just `ext` seem appropriate. I have seen both types of
constructors, what do you guys say? And while I'm on the topic, what about
types? An extension is only valid if the first field (type) is an integer from
-128 to 127 and the data a vector of bytes (integer in the range from 0 to
255). How do I enforce this invariant without static typing?
[1] https://msgpack.org/
[2] https://github.com/msgpack/msgpack/blob/master/spec.md#ext-format-family
next reply other threads:[~2018-08-26 13:04 UTC|newest]
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2018-08-26 13:04 HiPhish [this message]
2018-08-26 16:11 ` What should the constructor for a record look like? Matt Wette
2018-08-27 12:22 ` Ludovic Courtès
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