On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 7:17 PM, John Cowan <xxxxxx@mercury.ccil.org> wrote:

Alex Shinn scripsit:

> I think it's good to have read syntax for most objects, but would
> prefer to handle this more generally, e.g. SRFI-10/108.

SRFI 10 by itself is okay, but its suggested `define-reader-ctor`
mechanism suffers from phasing problems, as it is a run-time control
of a compile-time phenomenon.

Well, WG2 has to deal with phasing anyway. One possibility would

be to make define-reader-ctor a library declaration.

SRFI-108 is pretty huge and scares me somewhat. Maybe it's good,

but really for just read/write of records there are much simpler solutions

that will be easier to gain traction.

Alex