Re: [Scheme-reports] Legacy caar to cddddr

[Alaric Snell-Pym <alaric@x>]

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On 10/24/2011 05:03 PM, Andre van Tonder wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Oct 2011, Alex Shinn wrote:
>
>> I'd be interested to see real-world examples of (set-car! (c[ad]{3,}r x) y).
>> My guess is these are examples of abusing lists as records.
>
> Whether to call this an abuse is very subjective, depending very much on the
> type system you are imposing in your mind on your Scheme program.
>
> In my opinion, lists provide a wonderfully elegant representation
> of anonymous product types a la Hindley-Milner.  They have the additional
> advantage that you can portably READ and WRITE them and debug them easily,
> whereas records require a bunch of annoying boilerplate to do this.

Aren't vectors better for that?

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