Section: 16.3 Introduction to Compound Types

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16.3 Introduction to Compound Types

Use compound types to group data together.

Potential uses for compound types

Representing vector quantities like wind
Bundling multiple in situ observations together (profiles, soundings)
Modeling relational database tuples
Providing containers for related values of other user-defined types (strings, enums, ...)
Representing C structures portably

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