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Attribute typing

2021-10-13


Atributes are not associated with a value type. They are only semantic identities. Value type is fixed only in a file. If the attribute values are integers and the file contains only one byte integers for that attribute, a struct that reserves only one byte for it can be used. In another file the attribute may have larger values and more bytes would then have to be allocated.


← 2021-09-08
→ dabric file headers
→ value types in the Dabric prelude
← not fixing attribute value encoding helps preventing Y2K like problems
← 2021-10-17

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