The most obvious reason is to be able to pass records and tuples directly to functions as literals. Thus, in order to let the engine know how to handle such data, it needs its own syntax. Just another variable keyword doesn't cover this in future very common use case.
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The most obvious reason is to be able to pass records and tuples directly to functions as literals. Thus, in order to let the engine know how to handle such data, it needs its own syntax. Just another variable keyword doesn't cover this in future very common use case.