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From: carroll@snail.CS.UIUC.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2
Subject: Re: Recursively defined data types.
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Date: 16 Feb 88 05:18:00 GMT
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Nf-From: snail.CS.UIUC.EDU!carroll    Feb 15 23:18:00 1988


	I still don't understand how you would reference a recursive
data element that was far down in the structure. How would you parametrize
the reference to, say, the 10th data field of a recursively defined type?
Would you have to type in 10 "." operators, with the field names
between them? And how would you handle variable depth references?

Alan M. Carroll		amc@woodshop.cs.uiuc.edu	carroll@s.cs.uiuc.edu
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