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From: "Nick Roberts" <nickroberts@callnetuk.com>
Subject: Re: Maybe not exactly a variant record.
Date: 1999/04/23
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dennison@telepath.com wrote in message <7fo4ga$8pf$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>...
[...]
|Yes, it is called a variant record, with "length" as the variant. Also the
|available record fields *do* change, after a fashion. Incrementing
foo.length
|gives you an extra value in foo.text


No, it's not a variant record; it's a 'discriminated' record, with 'length'
as the discriminant.  A variant record is one with a 'case ...' construct
within it.