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On Mon, 20 Dec 2004, Per Bothner wrote:
Andre van Tonder wrote: SFI-9 only defines define-record-type at top-level. The SRFI-9 reference implementation is not "declarative" - it maps a compile-time-visible define-record-type to calls to a run-time functions. That does not how I want my implementation to be, so instead of the referece implmentation I some simple macros that translate define-record-type to the Kawa special form define-simple-class.
You are right. The reference implementation depends on a particular implementation detail of SRFI-9, which was not documented (until now).
Regards Andre