On Fri, 7 Oct 2005, Michael Sperber wrote:

>> - Instead, the current design makes positional indexing an irreducible
>>   part of what it means to be a record [...]
>
> That bothers me, too (personally, that is), and it suggests (to me,
> personally) that there should actually be a layer underneath the
> records which deals with subtyping and positional indexing only, and
> leaves everything dealing with named fields for the procedural layer.

I would like that better, also.  It seems to me that it would be cleaner
and simpler.

Cheers
Andre