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[PATCH] guix: Add syntactic sugar for profile generation.

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From: Maxime Devos <maximedevos <at> telenet.be>
To: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>, Liliana Marie Prikler <liliana.prikler <at> gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Tropin <andrewtropin <at> gmail.com>, 55653 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, zimoun <zimon.toutoune <at> gmail.com>
Subject: [bug#55653] [PATCH] guix: Add syntactic sugar for profile generation.
Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2022 17:07:46 +0200

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Ludovic Courtès schreef op do 02-06-2022 om 15:32 [+0200]:
> Still I’m not a fan of having syntax that looks like a field but is not
> an actual field, if we can avoid it.  I prefer to expose the data
> structure as it exists and, if needed, to build abstractions on top of
> it.  (The ABI issue that Maxime mention is real but I don’t think it’s a
> big problem in practice.)

FWIW I've some ideas for stable ABIs for record constructors even when
fields are added/removed or change from direct/thunked/delayed, a
stable ABI can be defined later.

Greetings,
Maxime.

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