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From: | Ludovic Courtès |
Subject: | Re: [PATCH] gnu-maintenance: Improve 'official-gnu-packages'; add the related procedures. |
Date: | Tue, 26 Mar 2013 22:21:48 +0100 |
User-agent: | Gnus/5.130005 (Ma Gnus v0.5) Emacs/24.2 (gnu/linux) |
Nikita Karetnikov <address@hidden> skribis: >> The suggestion I made was in favor of using a single >> ‘make-gnu-record-descriptor’ call with all the field values (as opposed >> to creating the record with all fields set to #f, and then using >> ‘setters’ to change them to their actual value.) > > OK. But why functional setters, then? They’re great, but here you know all the field values, so it’s more natural and more efficient to make a single call to the constructor. > Can't I use 'define-record-type'? You can if you end up not using the “syntactic constructor” with named fields (as was the case in my example). Ludo’.
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