>>>>> "Olin" == Olin Shivers <xxxxxx@shivers.ne.mediaone.net> writes:

Olin> Fine. But simply by adding *a pair of parens* -- simple syntax, no extra
Olin> semantics -- you make it possible for later record proposals to *extend*
Olin> SRFI-9 in a fashion that allows SRFI-9-compliant code to run unaltered
Olin> in the newer systems.

I think Richard's syntax and your suggestion are trivially
distinguishable by even SYNTAX-RULES, so I don't think Richard is
keeping anyone from extending the thing later.

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Cheers =8-} Mike
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