[m-dev.] for review: record syntax [2]

[Fergus Henderson]

On 10-Jan-2000, Simon Taylor <stayl at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> 
> [Peter Schachte wrote:]
> > 
> > What I'm questioning is the value to the user of this enforcement
> > relative to the complication of having to explain it.  On one hand,
> > you're giving the user a nice convention, but on the other hand you're
> > complicating the system and its explanation.  Since the user can quite
> > easily either use a different field name, or no name and use pattern
> > matching (the old-fashioned way) to define his setter, it seems to me
> > this feature doesn't bring enough benefit to the user to warrant the
> > confusion.
> 
> I really don't think it's that complicated or confusing.

I haven't had time to review Simon's changes in detail,
so perhaps I shouldn't even comment at this stage,
but at first glance I'm inclined to agree with Peter Schachte
on this point.

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