Re: [Chicken-users] retrieving a structure's symbol name

[Peter Bex]

On Thu, Jul 25, 2019 at 07:36:04AM +0200, Marco Maggi wrote:
> I am writing a library that mimics R6RS records.  Every R6RS record-type
> can  be associated  to a  unique identifier  (UID), which  is a  symbol.
> Defining the  same record-type  in multiple modules  is fine,  under the
> correct conditions.
> 
>   Using the  UID as  struct type  name, and  so implementing  records as
> simple CHICKEN structs, seems an efficient way to do it.

I had a quick look at the R6RS page and god that shit is ugly :)
But you're right, using these low-level constructors seems the best way
to do this.  Maybe you can use gensyms or uuids for the record names.
uuids probably work better if you later want to generate a types database
for the library.

Cheers,
Peter

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