On 8 Feb 2025, at 20:38, John Cowan <[email protected]> wrote:

> The meaning and source of the Skt quotation should be added.

I will, if this makes it as far as a SRFI. I’ll keep it a challenge for now: 
there are surprisingly many Sanskritists in the functional programming world 
(including myself, I know of at least four). Once you’ve got the basic 
translation, finding the source should be easy.

> The reference to the "very simplest cases" should be something like 
> ".,..simplest and commonest cases". People can do a lot with just SRFI 9.

True.

> Can we have a root record type with no fields rather than record systems? 
> This makes matters more complex in some ways but simpler in others.

Maybe. How would you control access to inspection and subtyping in this case?


Daphne

P.S. I removed Garson O’Toole from ADS-L from the Cc list; I assume he was 
there accidentally. Or did you want to challenge him with the Sanskrit 
quotation?

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