stBaseStruct Design and Description
The stBaseStruct class serves as a foundation for handling structures in dBL
code. This allows for emulating virtually any structure which might be used by
any application programming interface (API). The stBaseStruct class is also
subclassed by other st* data structures used in various js* classes in the
js* class library.
A data structure (sometimes referred to as a record) is, in the most simple
definition, nothing more than an in-memory
data buffer which hold predefined types of data. The data in a structure is
always numeric. The meaning and type of the numeric data depends on the context of use.
The numeric data might consist of a single byte or multiple
bytes. And it might actually represent numeric, logical, or string (text) data.
It is beyond the scope of this package to provide an education on the basics
of data structures. There are many resources available online. You might try
a search for 'data structure' in your favorite search engine to find resources
of information regarding data structures.