Re: [Scheme-reports] Are record field names bound by a record type def?

[John Cowan <cowan@x>]

Andre van Tonder scripsit:

> But how about the field names?  Are they bound to anything by the
> record type definition.  If not, why do we have them?  What is their
> function?

A SRFI 9 constructor is a procedure whose arguments correspond to some
of the fields of the record in an order which may or may not be the
specification order.  The formal parameters of the constructor are field
names; they are not normally bound to anything.

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