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Re: Conventional way of doing "struct"-like things?

• To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
• Subject: [mg104603] Re: Conventional way of doing "struct"-like things?
• From: Erik Max Francis <max at alcyone.com>
• Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2009 01:40:57 -0500 (EST)
• References: <200911012255.RAA12068@smc.vnet.net> <hconio$1bm$1@smc.vnet.net>

danl at wolfram.com wrote:
> I cannot say authoritatively what is "best practice" here. It tends to
> vary  amongst different programmers and different needs.
> 
> I will point out that using definitions such as lattitude[x_] is a common
> approach to making this not depend on internal details of your indexing. I
> certainly would encourage that for anything larger than a small project.
> Use of symbolic names for the indices can also help a bit to isolate low
> level details from higher level code. Makes code packaging and 
> maintainance much easier. Also makes it to a greater extent
> self-documenting.
> 
> There may be other ways to go about this sort of code modularization that
> either augment or avoid the ones you note, but if so I'm not seeing them
> at the moment.

Thanks for your input.  This was pretty much my suspicion, but I figured 
it couldn't hurt to ask to make sure there wasn't something I wasn't 
missing.

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