9.0 Chapter Goals

The purpose of this chapter is to explore in some detail the concept of structured data. The array type was considered in earlier chapters; here the set and record types are introduced. On completing the chapter, the student should understand and be able to use the following:

Data Representation Abstractions

General:

structured and unstructured data, sets, set elements, records, and record fields

Realized in the Modula-2 notation:

the Modula-2 set and record types

random Access Files

Data Manipulation Abstractions

General:

set operations

Realized in the Modula-2 notation:

set operations, and the manipulation of record fields

reading and writing random access files

Programming Abstractions

General:

unqualifying record field identifiers

Realized in the Modula-2 notation:

the WITH statement


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