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On Mon, 10 Oct 2005, Michael Sperber wrote: >> An external representation would be tricky to construct for instances of >> generative record types, but for non-generative types it should be >> possible, and would certainly be useful. > >Yes, and I expect this will be an addition at some point in the >future. (Non-generativity is partly there for exactly that purpose.) >For this SRFI, we decided to punt on this, though, because of the >expected technical complexity. I think there's a legitimate expectation and widespread implementation of the idea that a scheme implementing simple records (aggregates) ought to be able to read and write them in an external syntax. And while I'd like to see that _functionality_ documented, promoted, or possibly standardized, I don't think there's any consensus yet for any _particular_ external syntax. Bear