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From: nowlin@iwtqg.att.com
Newsgroups: comp.lang.icon
Subject: Re: Dynamic typing revisited
Message-ID: <9011172202.AA14215@megaron.cs.arizona.edu>
Date: 17 Nov 90 21:51:00 GMT
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> ...
> How then would you display the definition of t in a form that is
> independent of the name you give the type?  In Icon the type would
> simply be `t' (which actually isn't very revealing if you don't have
> the definition of `t' handy). 	
> ...
>  
> Paul

In fact, type 't' from Icon isn't that bad for some applications.  You can
get the fact that type 't' is a record by looking at the image() and then
you can just treat values of 't' like lists and generate the members or
directly subscript them.  I don't know how you'd find the specific member
names but you can get at the member values and that's more important in
most cases.

Jerry Nowlin (iwtqg!nowlin)