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HELP DATASTRUCTURES updated A.Sloman Jan 1986 There are several types of datastructures in POP-11 (types of object that your program can manipulate). Each type is associated with a 'dataword' and a class structure called a key. HELP files available include: * ARRAYS - Multidimensional structures indexed by numbers * BOOLEAN - TRUE or FALSE * CLASSES - Keys and Classes - an overview * DATAWORD - Returns the dataword of its argument. * DEVICE - I/O Devices * MORELISTS - Summary of list manipulating procedures * NIL - The unique item in NIL. * NUMBERS - There are various kinds of numbers * PAIR - Pair (and LISTS) * PROCASDATA - Procedure (This includes CLOSURES, PROPERTIES, ARRAYS) * PROCESS - Processes which save the state of a computation * PROPERTIES - Generalised association tables * REFERENCES - References - one-element records * SECTIONS - Structures with information for the compiler * STRINGS - Strings * TERMIN - The unique item in TERMIN. * VECTORS - Vectors * WORDS - Words Some procedures work on many classes of datastructures: * DATAPROCS For more on datastructures see * CLASSES - information on user defined classes * VECTORCLASS - defining new sorts of vectors * RECORDCLASS - defining new sorts of records For full technical details, see the REF files: REF * DATA REF * KEYS REF * LISTS REF * STRINGS REF * VECTORS