[r6rs-discuss] an essay on language design

[John Cowan]

Thomas Lord scripsit:

> John Cowan wrote:
> >No, the irreplaceable thing about records, no matter how you slice it,
> >is their ability to create novel disjoint types.
> 
> All you need for disjoint types is a global property table.

My meaning is that the irreplaceable feature of records-as-we-know-them
is the ability to provide types disjoint from all standard types.
I don't dispute that there are other ways to provide this feature.

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