> On 15 Nov 2022, at 09:40, Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen <xxxxxx@nieper-wisskirchen.de> wrote:
>
> On the other hand, given the existing notations for bytevectors,
> #vu8(...) and #u8(...), the lexical syntax
>
> #r(uid field ...)
>
> may make more sense for records.  (As Scheme has Records and not
> Structs, I am using an R, not an S, here.)
>
> The latter syntax has the advantage that it does not rely on a
> difference between parentheses and brackets (which are, otherwise,
> equivalent, at least in R6RS).

The disadvantage is that we have a limited number of letters to use after #, and we’ve already used quite a number of them.
https://codeberg.org/scheme/r7rs/issues/9

Daphne