Talk:Compound data type

This is a completely different task now.

I'm not saying that it is inappropriate or anything, just that I think it would vhave been better to create a new task rather than completely change the definition of a task that already has a bunch of code examples in it. The original task ("Create a structure Point(x,y) is appropriate for any language that is capable of collecting various items into a single variable. The modified version excludes all high-level languages (I'd say it is pretty much the definition of a HLL that you do not have to think about things like "how is this going to look like in memory"). Quite frankly I doubt the utility of a task that boils down to "access your machines memory in a certain particular bit-for-bit way"; but that is what this has become. Sgeier 18:35, 25 February 2007 (EST)