CLJ-1823 documents the change from CLJ-1208, which is really targeted at
interop use cases where a record type will be imported and instantiated
from Java.
The effect you mention is secondary and I would recommend that the bulk of
the type you are using records, you should require the record
A recent announcement of Clojure 1.8.0-beta2 mentioned an interesting
enhancement,
CLJ-1823 Document new :load-ns option to defrecord/deftype
which I think means that "import" will make a record type fully usable
without an auxiliary "require". This would be an improvement (for
Clojure),
