Formal comment #171 (simplification) verbosity of "fields" specifications for records Reported by: Sven Hartrumpf Version: 5.92 The markers "immutable" and "mutable" in are redundant because the two cases can be easily distinguished by checking for 2 or 3 values. RESPONSE: The editors tried to design the syntax in such a way as to enable future extensions to the syntax of that specify further attributes of fields. Depending on the number of subforms of for identification would make this more difficult. It would be possible to circumvent the problem by adding more parentheses. However, as some editors felt the proposal already had too many parentheses as it stands, the current syntax was adopted.