[r6rs-discuss] Record Types

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Michael Sperber <sperber at informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> writes:

> ludovic.courtes at laas.fr (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
>
>> Interestingly, this was the approach taken by SRFI-35, although one of
>> its authors is also the author of SRFI-9.  I didn't find any clue in the
>> list archive as to why named fields were preferred over accessors.
>
> This was because the names were used to name the bits of information,
> which could be combined in various different ways through compound
> conditions.  There's just no way to use positions with SRFI 35.

Right.

Thanks for the clarification,
Ludovic.