Re: User-defined record types, v2

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>
> Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2017 08:50:24 -0400
> 
> >> But I'm not even sure we should enforce this in the `record` and
> >> `make-record` primitives.  After all, it's not needed for safety.  And
> >> since we allow (aset <obj> 0 <foo>) we can circumvent this check
> >> anyway.
> > Not quite.  `aset' does the check too.
> 
> Hm... so this slows down every use of `aset` on records, 99.99% of which
> affect another slot anyway!
> 
> > But then, so much else in Emacs depends on people doing sensible
> > things, so maybe no check is needed at all.
> 
> Exactly.
> 
> > If we come up with a need for a check, we know where to add it.  If not,
> > I can just delete the unused code.
> 
> That'd be my choice.

We could instead leave it in an eassert.