While I esteem Marc's work highly, I have to say that his message above is
incomplete and tendentious. He links to SRFI 150, written by him, in which
he links to a message by Alex Shinn (R7RS-small editor and Chibi
implementer) in support of this view. This is a single message in the
thread <
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I've read in the news that the upcoming Guile 3.0 will unify records.
Core records type seem to support the procedure "record-accessor",
which takes a field name as a symbol.
In R7RS (based on SRFI 9), record field names are, however, (hygienic)
identifiers and thus compile-time and not run-time
