[plt-scheme] naming convention for structure constructor vs. wrapper?

Yeap, that's my point. Define your own favorite version of 
define-struct. -- Matthias


On Jul 1, 2004, at 3:20 PM, Neil W. Van Dyke wrote:

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>> Exactly.  The SRFI 9 implementation is a wrapper around
>> MAKE-STRUCT-TYPE.  And it's ... gasp ... somewhat portable.
>
> I'm using SRFI-9 right now (for portability).  Worth noting is that
> SRFI-9 is pretty impoverished, functionality-wise, compared to
> "make-struct-type".
>
> SRFI-9 also has the annoying requirement that one enumerate the
> constructor fields in the record type definition.  As an alternative to
> the "(<constructor name> <field tag> ...)"  syntax, they could've also
> permitted simply "<constructor name>", which would mean a constructor 
> of
> one term for each field of the record, in the order listed in the 
> record
> type definition.
>
> I wouldn't use SRFI-9 under PLT, except for portability.