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On 10/28/2010 11:54 AM, Pavel Stehule wrote:
> Alternatively, maybe the feature could be exposed in a way where you
> don't actually calculate the values unless requested, ie provide some
> sort of inquiry function instead of always precomputing a hash.
> +1 .. some like get_function_info()
>

Yeah, that looks doable.

I think we can just commit the generic record support now and add this 
on later.

cheers

andrew