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Shiro Kawai wrote:
SRFI-10 could be used to introduce literals for user-defined types. Chicken, Gauche, Guile and STklos support it, AFAIK. Unfortunatley it has some issues, though: (1) The notation (#,) conflicts with R6RS. (2) The semantics of read-time evaluation is rather defined in ad-hoc way, and it isn't clear what context the constructor is evaluated. (3) Macro expansion comes after read-time evaluation, so there's no way to write a macro that generates #,-form, etc.
Thanks, but it's a nonstarter for me if you can't write '(x . y) to construct a constant pair. Beyond that, you give good reasons why SRFI 10 is not adequate in this setting.
David