jurjen@lijster.cwi.nl (Jurjen N.E. Bos) (03/28/90)
Do you guys realized how many types there are that you can't acces from the outside in the 28/48? The 48 brought some of those hidden types to visibility (for example, the long real and long complex), but still there are a lot of types that I would like to have. How about a 3-dimensional array of strings, for example? I know what the representation would be, and it wouldn't surprise me if the internal routines handle those beasts without any problems. For example, the 28C already stores its error messages in an array of strings. Did anybody use/explore/investigate this in one of the machines? I would like to know! -- | | "Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what | | Jurjen N.E. Bos | it might appear to others that what you were or might | | | have been was not otherwise than what you had been | | jurjen@cwi.nl | would have appeared to them to be otherwise." |
alonzo@microsoft.UUCP (Alonzo GARIEPY) (03/30/90)
In article <8921@boring.cwi.nl> jurjen@lijster.cwi.nl (Jurjen N.E. Bos) writes: > Do you guys realized how many types there are that you can't access > from the outside in the 28/48? There are 24, 27 or 28 types, depending on how you count them. The following 10 or 11 are generally inaccessible. I suppose it would be possible to create new object types according to the scheme used for the built-in ones. Example Address Type Name Display Syntax ------- ---- ---- ------- ------ 02e92 14 XLIB name XLIB 2 261 none 02b40 16 Library Library none 02b62 17 Backup obj Backup Object none 02911 20 Address <28FCh> none 02955 21 Long Real Long Real none 0299d 22 Long Complex Long Complex none 02a0a 23 Linked Array Linked Array none 029bf 24 Character Character none 02dcc 25 Code Code none 02b88 26 Library Data Library Data none other 27 External External none Any detailed information about the structure and use of the above objects will be much appreciated. Address, Long Real, Long Complex, and Code have been explained elsewhere. XLIB name is the same as Command and Function. External includes any object which is not recognized (not built-in). Alonzo Gariepy alonzo@microsoft