[r6rs-discuss] [Formal] Record layers are not orthogonal.

[David Van Horn]

William D Clinger wrote:
> Although simplification of the syntactic layers is
> one solution to this problem, I would suggest a more
> radical solution: omit both syntactic layers from the
> R6RS.  Both could be described by a SRFI and provided
> by portable reference implementations that build on
> the procedural layer.

I agree.  These are good candidates for SRFIs and omitting
them from R6RS would cut down the size of the document.

David