You may or may not have heard of it, SQLite has them, but what is
a manifestation type (I'll call them mtypes from now on)?
You can think of an mtype as a untyped variable with a twist.
That is you can assign anything you want to it without having to
first declare its type OR size. But first lets look at a typed
variable example using the C programming language. In C if you
want to store a string you will need to declare a fixed char
array or create a char pointer to some malloc'd memory cast as
char:
// fixed length array
char str[28];
or
// malloc'd fixed length array
char *str;
str = (char)malloc(sizeof(char)*28);
You need to know ahead of time how much space you will need to
store a string. If your string was longer than 28 characters you
would lose everything after character 28, safely off course by
being sure not to write more than 28 bytes ;) …
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04
2007