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Comments Takashi Kato (28 Jun 2016 19:40 UTC)
Re: Comments Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen (29 Jun 2016 07:21 UTC)
Re: Comments Takashi Kato (29 Jun 2016 09:00 UTC)
Re: Comments Shiro Kawai (29 Jun 2016 09:39 UTC)
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Re: Comments John Cowan (29 Jun 2016 20:20 UTC)
Re: Comments John Cowan (29 Jun 2016 20:16 UTC)

Re: Comments John Cowan 29 Jun 2016 20:16 UTC

Takashi Kato scripsit:

> - Can this SRFI make container like pair/vector without using pair/vector?

No, it cannot.

> - What's the reason of returning make-subtype? To me, it's not minimal.
>   You can build type system which has subtype on top of single type.
>   (c.f. sample implementation of R6RS record)

To make sure that the relationship between supertype predicates and
subtype instances holds.

> - Is this also intended to be a part of R7RS-large?

As a proposal for it, yes.

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