Re: Generative and nongenerative record types
Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen 03 Nov 2022 19:20 UTC
Resolved in the latest draft (in personal repo):
- Added a generative clause to be explicit about the generative case.
- Encourage implementations to warn if neither a nongenerative nor a
generative clause is used or if a nongenerative clause is used without
a uid.
Am Mi., 2. Nov. 2022 um 15:57 Uhr schrieb Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen
<xxxxxx@nieper-wisskirchen.de>:
>
> 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)))