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Composite types

Composite types are defined in an enum type diet_type_t:

Type Possible base types
DIET_SCALAR all base types
DIET_VECTOR all base types
DIET_MATRIX all base types
DIET_STRING DIET_CHAR
DIET_PARAMSTRING DIET_CHAR
DIET_FILE DIET_CHAR
DIET_CONTAINER all base types

Each of these types requires specific parameters to completely describe the data (see Figure 3.1).



The DIET Team - Ven 18 nov 2011 18:13:39 PST