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Structures
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[FIXME: this is pasted in from Tom Lord's original guile.texi and should
be reviewed]

A "structure type" is a first class user-defined data type.  A
"structure" is an instance of a structure type.  A structure type is
itself a structure.

Structures are less abstract and more general than traditional records.
In fact, in Guile Scheme, records are implemented using structures.

Structure Concepts

The structure of Structures

Structure Layout

Defining the layout of structure types

Structure Basics

make-, -ref and -set! procedures for structs

Vtables

Accessing type-specific data