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From: dennison@telepath.com
Subject: Re: Big-endian vs little-endian
Date: 1999/02/08
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In article <36BD02DB.737849EE@hso.link.com>,
  "Samuel T. Harris" <sam_harris@hso.link.com> wrote:

> also a security concern). Since then, I have always advocated
> producing width, image, and value functions for all important
> data types. In fact, I have generics which produce these functions
> for arrays (trivial) and records (almost trivial) so the overhead
> for developing these functions is insignificant. An they do come
> in handy when a little text_io based debugging instrumentation
> is needed. A simple put_line(image(whatever)); is always available.

Cool idea! But what method do you use to make generation of records "almost
trivial"? And how do you handle pointers?

T.E.D.

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