Re: [Chicken-users] [ANN] SRFI-99 record types for CHICKEN

[John Cowan]

Thomas Chust scripsit:

> The SRFI's syntax for record definitions is compatible with SRFI-9,
> but several extensions including convenient default names of
> procedures, single inheritance of record types and introspection
> capabilities are available, too.

Very cool!  I started to write this a long time ago, but never got
around to writing the syntactic module.

Bug report:  A constructor defined to take explicit arguments does
not work: instead of returning the instance, it returns a procedure
that takes N arguments and ignores them, where N is the number of slots
specified for the constructor; this procedure must then be invoked with
M arguments, where M is the number of slots in the record.

API suggestion: add redefine-record-type, which is the same as
define-record-type except that instead of a gensym'd uid it uses the
record name as the uid.  That allows you to easily redefine a record
defined by Chicken's native SRFI-9 implementation so that you can define
child record types of it, while still allowing existing instances to work.

Implementation suggestion: rather than storing the uid-to-rtd mapping in
a global hash table, store it on the property list of the uid under the
the key 'srfi-99.  That allows you to reload the implementation without
trashing existing mappings.

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