Taylan Kammer 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 >> (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 -- Unpolitisch sein heißt politisch sein ohne es zu merken