Re: Run-Time Type Assignment

[Hyman Rosen <hyrosen@mail.com>]

Robert C. Leif wrote:
 > I am now trying to create a binary file for my work on CytometryML.
 > CytometryML is a collection of XML schemas that will be used for
 > cytometry data.

Isn't XML a text format? Why are you creating a binary file?

 > The maximum number of records that I have specified for CytometryML
 > is two billion.

Are you making the specification, or is this the specification you
have been given? Are the records so interlinked that you must process
all of them at once?

> Two possible approaches for the creation of this record

Creation of what record? Didn't you say that the file of data
already exists? Are you trying to read in the data to process it?
What is the format of the data in the file? This all seems very
confusing to me. I don't think you have correctly explained what
it is that you need.

> My application may have some generality because this type of type
> assignment (for want of a better term) conceivably could be used for
> spreadsheets and data bases.

What in the world does this mean?

> This is not a recommendation.

Or this?