> On Apr 12, 2019, at 2:17 PM, Kevin Bourrillion <kev...@google.com> wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 12, 2019 at 12:34 AM Remi Forax <fo...@univ-mlv.fr > <mailto:fo...@univ-mlv.fr>> wrote: > > At the end of section "Why not "just" do tuples ?", you have this gem, > "A good starting point for thinking about records is that they are nominal > tuples." > > That is *a* starting point, but I think a barely useful one. Records have > semantics, which makes them *worlds* different from tuples. Methods, > supertypes, validation, specification... I think it's fair to say that all a > record holds is a "tuple", but it's so much more. Record is to tuple as enum > is to int.
Good observation. And also note that Java `record` is to C `struct` as Java `enum` is to C `enum`.
