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I gave up on record rep clauses a while back after similar frustrations. Am
I
alone in this? These days, for interface level stuff I work with byte arrays
and
do all the conversions explicitly myself (loads of modular arithmatic, which
I'd
have to admit finding quite fun getting what I want sometimes :-)

Has anyone been down this path before and stopped any pitfalls I'm not
aware of?

Marin David Condic <marin.condic.auntie.spam@pacemicro.com> wrote in message
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> Oh sure. Most garden variety representation clauses get listened to and
> obeyed. At least in my experience. I just like to complain about the
> inability to coerce behavior out of compilers sometimes. I know I've come
up
> with perfectly reasonable and legal representation specifications from
time
> to time and had them rejected by compilers because a) they didn't
understand
> what I wanted or b) they *did* understand and refused to do it because
> obviously they knew better than I did what it is I *really* wanted, if
only
> I was as smart and omnipotent as the compiler.