David Van Horn wrote:
> Hello,
>
> SRFI 57 has been updated and the latest draft is now available at:
>
>    http://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-57/
>
> The update consists of a small bug fix in the code and a minor
> reorganization of the text.  This will be last revision before
> finalization (Jan 8) unless there are further comments, so please speak
> up if you have an issue with the current draft.
>

Hm... Non-generative record definitions would be nice.
Here an excerpt from the Chez Scheme release notes (6.9c):

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2.33. Records and generativity (6.9)

Each record type is associated with a unique generated name, or gensym. This gensym is used to identify the record type
in the printed and compiled representations of each record of the type. When the name argument to make-record-type is a
gensym, this gensym is used; otherwise a new gensym is created. If make-record-type is invoked more than once with the
same gensym and the record fields match, the same record type descriptor is returned. If the record fields do not match,
an error is signaled. This permits the programmer to control the generativity of record types; full nongenerativity is
achieved by passing a gensym, and various levels of generativity are achieved by passing in a non-gensym at expansion
time or run time.

define-record is ordinarily expansion-time generative, meaning that each time an expression is expanded, e.g., when it
is contained in a file loaded for source or compiled by compile-file, a new record type is constructed. If the name of
the record is specified as a gensym, however, the record type is fully nongenerative. This allows the programmer to
place two identical definitions of a record type in two files to be separately compiled or loaded. Only the pretty name
of the gensym is used in forming the variables naming the record constructor, predicate, accessors, and setters. For
example:

(define-record foo ((immutable a)))

and

(define-record #{foo |*5CNSgDOG8+wd\\%|} ((immutable a)))

each implicitly define make-foo, foo?, and foo-a, but the latter is nongenerative while the former is expansion-time
generative.
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cheers,
felix