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From: monardo@cshl.org (Pat Monardo)
Subject: Re: structures with variable length elements.
Message-ID: <1991May18.213515.10903@cshl.org>
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Organization: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
References: <1991May18.010928.16619@cshl.org>
Date: Sat, 18 May 91 21:35:15 GMT

In article <1991May18.010928.16619@cshl.org> monardo@cshl.org (Pat Monardo) writes:
>i am only superficially aware of C++, so....
whew, doing my own research led me into templates.
i dont think i can deal with that now.  what i want is
an "APL runtime" written in C++. we could design
some base classes for example:

class hier sketch:

JType
JShape
JData

and somehow wrap this into a template/virtual function
scheme and viola *APL to go*. Somwhere in the JType and
JShape subclasses would have to be converters/streamers/etc.
we would have to support Dictionary APL concepts of
virtual accessors and dynamic ranking (reshaping?)

! right.
<*> :-(

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