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<b>Common Lisp the Language, 2nd Edition</b>
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<H1><A NAME=SECTION002300000000000000000>19. Structures</A></H1>
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Common Lisp provides a facility for creating named record structures
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with named components. In effect, the user can define a new data type;
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every data structure of that type has components with specified names.
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Constructor, access, and assignment constructs are automatically
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defined when the data type is defined.
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This chapter is divided into two parts. The first part discusses
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the basics of the structure facility, which is very simple and allows
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the user to take advantage of the type-checking, modularity, and
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convenience of user-defined record data types. The second part,
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beginning with section <A HREF="node173.html#DefstructHairyStuff">19.5</A>,
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discusses a number of specialized features of the facility that
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have advanced applications. These features are completely optional,
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and you needn't even know they exist in order to take
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advantage of the basics.
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<LI> <A NAME=tex2html3624 HREF="node169.html#SECTION002310000000000000000"> Introduction to Structures</A>
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<LI> <A NAME=tex2html3625 HREF="node170.html#SECTION002320000000000000000"> How to Use Defstruct</A>
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<LI> <A NAME=tex2html3626 HREF="node171.html#SECTION002330000000000000000"> Using the Automatically Defined Constructor Function</A>
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<LI> <A NAME=tex2html3627 HREF="node172.html#SECTION002340000000000000000"> Defstruct Slot-Options</A>
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<LI> <A NAME=tex2html3628 HREF="node173.html#SECTION002350000000000000000"> Defstruct Options</A>
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<LI> <A NAME=tex2html3629 HREF="node174.html#SECTION002360000000000000000"> By-Position Constructor Functions</A>
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<LI> <A NAME=tex2html3630 HREF="node175.html#SECTION002370000000000000000"> Structures of Explicitly Specified Representational Type</A>
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<LI> <A NAME=tex2html3631 HREF="node176.html#SECTION002371000000000000000"> Unnamed Structures</A>
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<LI> <A NAME=tex2html3632 HREF="node177.html#SECTION002372000000000000000"> Named Structures</A>
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<LI> <A NAME=tex2html3633 HREF="node178.html#SECTION002373000000000000000"> Other Aspects of Explicitly Specified Structures</A>
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