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On Tue, 26 Mar 2002, Paul Jarc wrote:

> I came up with a meta-macro called nnmaildir--defstruct for defining
> data structures.  Sample use:
> 
> (nnmaildir--defstruct nnmaildir--srv
>   [address    ;; the server address string
>    method     ;; the select method
>    ...
>    ])
> 
> This defines macros such as nnmaildir--srv-get-address and
> nnmaildir--srv-set-address which expand to aref and aset forms, much
> like the gnus-info-* macros, complete with automatic docstrings.  This
> makes for less typing and prevents me from accidentally using a
> different index in the -get- and -set- macros for the same member of a
> data structure.
> 
> After I wrote this, I realized its usefulness really isn't limited to
> nnmaildir.  E.g., the gnus-info-* macros could maybe be reimplemented
> with this.  So where would be a good place for it?  gnus-util.el?
> gnus.el?

Perhaps it can be ripped out and put into a .el file of it's own?  It 
seems that maybe there are non-gnus uses for it as well.