Question regarding record types

[Hartmut Goebel]

Hi,

in the services modules, there are configuration types defined like this:

(define-record-type* <nginx-configuration>
  nginx-configuration make-nginx-configuration
  nginx-configuration?
  (nginx         nginx-configuration-nginx)         ;<package>
  (log-directory nginx-configuration-log-directory) ;string
  (run-directory nginx-configuration-run-directory) ;string
  (vhosts        nginx-configuration-vhosts
                 (default '()))   ;list of <nginx-vhost-configuration>
  (file          nginx-configuration-file))         ;string | file-like

I wonder if it's really necessary to have this prefix
"nginx-configuration-" for what I assume is the getter? For me it looks
redundant. The getter is only valid for this very type, so why should
there be any need to add a prefix?

If the reason is, that all these getters are defined globally, them I'm
astound, why there is no syntax like my_config->log-directory, which
would remove this redundancy.

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Regards
Hartmut Goebel

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