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| Title: | DECmcc user notes file. Does not replace IPMT. | 
| Notice: | Use IPMT for problems. Newsletter location in note 6187 | 
| Moderator: | TAEC::BEROUD | 
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| Created: | Mon Aug 21 1989 | 
| Last Modified: | Wed Jun 04 1997 | 
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 | 
| Number of topics: | 6497 | 
| Total number of notes: | 27359 | 
868.0. "RECORD Data construct" by STAR::DUTKO (Nestor, VMS Engineering) Wed Apr 03 1991 13:48
If I define an attribute of type RECORD with three fields, I understand that 
the fields are used as keywords when specifying their values.
Must I specify every keyword/value pair even if I don't need to?
Consider a VMS ACE. It is comprised of three fields, the Identifier, the Options
and Access.  I don't need to specify Options on every ACE, just when I want to.
As a note, I'm currently envisioning the VMSace to be defined as:
	TYPE VMSIdentifierAce = 1 RECORD
		Identifier = 1 : Latin1String ;
                Options = 2 : Latin1String ;
                Access = 3 : Latin1String ;
		END ;
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| 868.1 | for now YES | TOOK::CALLANDER |  | Wed Apr 03 1991 18:07 | 4 | 
|  | For now you must specify EVERY keyword=value pair when entering a 
record from both the FCL and the Iconic Map PMs. Maybe in the
future this will change, but for now we don't have a consistent
mechanism for encoding "it wasn't supplied" inside a record.
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