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Abstract data types

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• Subject: [mg13964] Abstract data types
• From: mortena at eple.ii.uib.no (Morten N. Aasnes)
• Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1998 15:06:53 -0400
• Organization: University of Bergen, Norway
• Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

Is there a way to make new datatypes in Mathematica? I have some
routines for reading various sorts of data from files,  along with some
information about the data, like label to use for plot, axis labels,
etc. And I would like to be able to treat all this like  a single
object. I supose I could just use a list, and have the first element be
the data itself, the second element as the label, etc. and then have
functions like setLabel/getLabel but this dosn't seem very elegant. Any
ideas?

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