On Fri, 7 Oct 2005, Michael Sperber wrote:
- Instead, the current design makes positional indexing an irreducible part of what it means to be a record [...]That bothers me, too (personally, that is), and it suggests (to me, personally) that there should actually be a layer underneath the records which deals with subtyping and positional indexing only, and leaves everything dealing with named fields for the procedural layer.
I would like that better, also. It seems to me that it would be cleaner and simpler.
Cheers Andre