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  • Subject: RE: DS fields
  • From: Mark Lazarus <mlazarus@xxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 11 Jul 1999 22:08:17

Ken,

At 12:14 PM 7/11/99 -0800, you wrote:
>How about a multiple occurance data structure.
>
>1      OCUR    MyDS
>       eval    SomeString = MyDS
>2      OCUR    MyDS
>       eval    MyDS = SomeString

 MODS can be useful, but I find them clumsy for this purpose, since you
can't reference two occurrences at once.  This means extra moves.  They
should work more like arrays.  But even if they would, I would still like
to see DSs allow the same field defined in more than one DS.

 -mark

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