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Re: [PATCH] * etc/NEWS: Document incompatibilities introduced by record


From: Philipp Stephani
Subject: Re: [PATCH] * etc/NEWS: Document incompatibilities introduced by record types.
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2017 16:35:02 +0000



Clément Pit-Claudel <address@hidden> schrieb am Mo., 11. Dez. 2017 um 23:26 Uhr:
On 2017-12-11 16:37, Philipp Stephani wrote:
> +*** … Don't define record types whose names clash with primitive type names.
> +*** … Don't define record types named 'hash-table'.

Could we just reserve these names and make it an error to define such records?
Or, could we make type-of return `record-foo` instead of `foo`?


Yes, I would strongly prefer either of those.
(Though I'd prefer something like '(record foo) or a custom struct to make parsing a bit easier, but that's a nit.) 

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