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Many of the names of the procedural layer match those of the "record" feature in SLIB, which I believe is based on Pavel Curtis 1989 proposal. (Some of these functions are different, but I believe an implementation could overload both the old and the new specifications.) However, SRFI-76 uses record-mutator where SLIB uses record-modifier. Is there any reason for the for this difference? I think that the old name is better than the new name, so why change it? I gues the word "modifier" is somewhat overloaded (it could also be something like an adjective or adverb that modifies some other action), but at least it's a "real word", unlike "mutator". The arguments either way don't seem strong either way, which argues for using the old name, especially given that other record-XXX functions keep the old names. -- --Per Bothner per@xxxxxxxxxxx http://per.bothner.com/