namespaced keys are actually awful
you wanted a record type not an infinite union of a bunch of shit
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Interesting. In what context? Clojure? I've actually wondering if the lack of namespaced labels has been part of the problem with implementations of extensible records in the past (OCaml, Purescript, Elm, etc), and part of the reason they don't get as much use…
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yeah it's an idea I kicked around some as well. I think it solves a category of inheritance problems I've found rare or at least avoidable in my Clojure work, and I generally fall in the restrictive formalisms help actually camp.
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the particular case I'm subtweeting here is a library for storing configuration as records where the records have a uniformly defined interpretation so the ability to play fast and loose with these structures kinda defeats the purpose of the library.
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