On 8 Feb 2025, at 20:38, John Cowan <xxxxxx@ccil.org> wrote:

> The meaning and source of the Skt quotation should be added.

I will, if this makes it as far as a SRFI. I’ll keep it a challenge for now: there are surprisingly many Sanskritists in the functional programming world (including myself, I know of at least four). Once you’ve got the basic translation, finding the source should be easy.

> The reference to the "very simplest cases" should be something like ".,..simplest and commonest cases". People can do a lot with just SRFI 9.

True.

> Can we have a root record type with no fields rather than record systems? This makes matters more complex in some ways but simpler in others.

Maybe. How would you control access to inspection and subtyping in this case?

Daphne

P.S. I removed Garson O’Toole from ADS-L from the Cc list; I assume he was there accidentally. Or did you want to challenge him with the Sanskrit quotation?