From: "Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide" <arne_bab@web.de>
To: Taylan Kammer <taylan.kammer@gmail.com>
Cc: guile-user@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Guix records
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2021 09:38:16 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lfbw5nd3.fsf@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2c723161-6be9-26e0-dfc0-14e43cdda6fc@gmail.com>
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Taylan Kammer <taylan.kammer@gmail.com> writes:
>>> (import (rnrs records syntactic (6)))
>>> (define-record-type (cat make-cat cat?) (fields name age color))
>> I did not know about that shorthand — thank you!
>> I always did this:
>> (import (srfi srfi-9))
>> (define-record-type <cat>
>> (make-cat name age color)
>> cat?
>> (name cat-name) (age cat-age) (color cat-color))
>> Compared to that the syntactic form you showed is much nicer.
>
> I actually prefer the conceptual simplicity and explicit nature of
> SRFI-9 to be honest, but yeah, it can be very verbose.
I’ve used records a bit, and the additional overhead is annoying.
On the other hand I like it that there is an explicit entry in the file,
so I don’t get magic variables that my text editor cannot find without
executing the code.
> According to the 3.0 release notes, R6RS and SRFI-9 now both use a
> unified core record system under the hood and should therefore have
> equivalent performance characteristics I suppose.
Thank you!
Best wishes,
Arne
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-02-10 8:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-02-05 16:51 Guix records Olivier Dion via General Guile related discussions
2021-02-09 23:14 ` Taylan Kammer
2021-02-10 1:02 ` Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
2021-02-10 5:37 ` Taylan Kammer
2021-02-10 8:38 ` Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide [this message]
2021-02-09 23:32 ` Aleix Conchillo Flaqué
2021-02-10 0:28 ` Olivier Dion via General Guile related discussions
2021-02-10 21:11 ` Aleix Conchillo Flaqué
2021-02-26 17:36 ` Ludovic Courtès
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