[racket] something like a prop:object-name?

From: Matthew Flatt (mflatt at cs.utah.edu)
Date: Wed Apr 30 16:50:35 EDT 2014

I think `prop:object-name` would be a good addition, but it doesn't
exist right now.

At Wed, 30 Apr 2014 16:35:06 -0400, "Alexander D. Knauth" wrote:
> What do you mean?  I tried it and it didn’t affect the object-name.  
> 
> And what I’m looking for is something that could be different for different 
> instances of the same structure type, for example:
> (struct thing (name) #:property prop:object-name (struct-field-index name))
> 
> (struct proc-with-string (proc str)
>   #:property prop:procedure (struct-field-index proc)
>   #:property prop:object-name (lambda (this)
>                                 (object-name (proc-with-string-proc this)))
>   #:property prop:custom-write (lambda (this out mode)
>                                  (display (proc-with-string-str this) out)))
> 
> 
> On Apr 30, 2014, at 9:26 AM, Stephen Chang <stchang at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
> 
> > Does the #:extra-constructor-name keyword argument to struct do what you're 
> looking for?
> > 
> > On Apr 29, 2014 9:31 PM, "Alexander D. Knauth" <alexander at knauth.org> wrote:
> > I’m just curious is there something like a prop:object-name that the 
> object-name function would use when returning the object name of a struct with 
> that property?
> > 
> > 
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