Re: Naming FCRs

[Richard Stallman]

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The term "function with record" has a basic drawback: it describes what
these things are built out of, not what they do.

Before adding this feature, we should consider whether it would really
add significant functionality to Emacs.  I tend to think that it
doesn't, because they are so similar to the closures we already have.

Can anyone make an argument that having functions-with-records as well
as closures would be significantly better than having only closures?
If not, we may as well leave this alone.

But if there is a significant benefit in having
functions-with-records, let's give them a name which is not a
description of theie low level implementation.


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Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org)
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