What types for MATISSE?

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What types for MATISSE?

Before we delve into redesigning a new OPL, we need to ponder its type particularities--indeed, peculiarities. The current OPL departs from conventional programming langauges when it comes to types in several respects. Figure 3 shows the types supported by OPL.

**Figure 3:** OPL types
$\begin{figure}\par\begin{center} \par\begin{tabular}{cccccccccc} &&& \rnode{TYPE... ...UM} \ncline{-}{TYPE}{SETOF} \ncline{-}{TYPE}{ARRAY} \end{center}\par\end{figure}$

Primitive types
Object types
Collections types

Hassan Ait-Kaci
2001-10-22