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Subject: New Lispcore>Library package: MesaTypes
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To: Lispcore^, Lispsupport, Sheil, Cooper, Purcell
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Announcing a new Lispcore>Library package: MesaTypes
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By Tayloe Stansbury with help from Richard Burton.
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This package introduces three new clisprecordtypes which allow you to describe any block of bits with an arbitrarily nested datatype. You can define multidimensional, nonstandardly indexed arrays with multi-word elements; records with multi-word fields; and multi-word types. Special accessfns cover up the necessary \BLTs and LOCFs. Appropriate create methods are automatically provided. The package also provides a number of macros for manipulating instances of such types.
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Anyone who wants to use graceful datatypes to describe some arbitrary chunk of memory (e.g. ethernet, rs232, nsfiling, any file system) will probably find this package useful; most of the 1108 file system now depends on it. People translating Mesa system code into Lisp will find it particularly useful.
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This message is stored as Lispcore>Library>MesaTypes.tedit. Proper external documentation of this package will follow release of the 1108 file system. Extensive examples of its use can be found in the first few pages of stansbury>newdlionfs>dlionfs.
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-- Tayloe. |