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From: Matthew Heaney <matthew_heaney@acm.org>
Subject: Re: Representation Clauses for tagged types
Date: 1998/08/28
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d1c@striper.ssd.ray.com (Courville) writes:

> I'm trying to define a representation clause for a tagged type
> and I can't find any information about specifying where the
> "tag" goes.  I wan't to do something like this:

Here is some advice: don't bother trying to write a representation
clause for a tagged type.  Use the streams facility to convert your
tagged-type object to an external representation, and process that.