For an alternative point of view, I write lisp for my day job and would not approve any code that just shoved a bunch of unrelated data in a list. Thinking abou

For an alternative point of view, I write lisp for my day job and would not approve any code that just shoved a bunch of unrelated data in a list. Thinking about the destructuring code, especially if you don’t have access to pattern matching, is enough to give me a headache. You know that‘s not going to be documented, and if it is, people won’t be able to find the documentation. Just use records; every lisp has records, and it’s the point of records, and it’s not any less “elegant” or “beautiful” or “lispy” or whatever to have named fields and nice printing and accessors for free. The one exception I can think of is procedures with variadic arguments.