Generative and nongenerative record types Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen (30 Oct 2022 09:09 UTC)
Re: Generative and nongenerative record types John Cowan (30 Oct 2022 16:37 UTC)
Re: Generative and nongenerative record types Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen (30 Oct 2022 16:57 UTC)
Re: Generative and nongenerative record types John Cowan (30 Oct 2022 22:20 UTC)
Re: Generative and nongenerative record types Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen (31 Oct 2022 09:12 UTC)
Re: Generative and nongenerative record types Marc Feeley (31 Oct 2022 12:00 UTC)
Re: Generative and nongenerative record types Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen (31 Oct 2022 12:37 UTC)
Re: Generative and nongenerative record types Marc Feeley (31 Oct 2022 13:21 UTC)
Re: Generative and nongenerative record types Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen (02 Nov 2022 13:09 UTC)
Re: Generative and nongenerative record types Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen (02 Nov 2022 14:57 UTC)
Re: Generative and nongenerative record types Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen (03 Nov 2022 19:20 UTC)
Re: Generative and nongenerative record types Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen (08 Nov 2022 16:23 UTC)
Re: Generative and nongenerative record types Daphne Preston-Kendal (08 Nov 2022 16:24 UTC)
Re: Generative and nongenerative record types Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen (08 Nov 2022 16:29 UTC)

Re: Generative and nongenerative record types Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen 02 Nov 2022 14:57 UTC

In case someone is interested; below is a quick-and-dirty Emacs hack I
just wrote.

Am Mi., 2. Nov. 2022 um 14:09 Uhr schrieb Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen
<xxxxxx@nieper-wisskirchen.de>:

> But I see why you say that UID-less nongenerative records are also
> problematic.  For quick-and-dirty programming and some backward
> compatibility, I like to leave them in the language (at least until I
> have told Emacs to generate UIDs for me), but at least we can
> encourage implementations to raise a continuable exception of type
> &warning whenever they expand a UID-less nongenerative record type.

(defun scheme-insert-record-type-definition (record-name)
  "Insert a record-type defintion for RECORD-NAME."
  (interactive "sRecord name: ")
  (insert "(define-record-type ")
  (insert record-name)
  (newline)
  (indent-according-to-mode)
  (insert "(nongenerative ")
  (insert record-name)
  (insert "-")
  (insert (substring (with-output-to-string
               (call-process "uuidgen" nil standard-output))
             0 -1))
  (insert ")")
  (newline)
  (indent-according-to-mode)
  (insert "(fields ")
  (save-excursion
    (insert "))")
    (newline)
    (indent-according-to-mode)))

(add-hook 'scheme-mode-hook
      (lambda () (local-set-key (kbd "C-c r")
#'scheme-insert-record-type-definition)))