identical things, and you want to allow these things to be accessed
directly by subscripting, in addition to whatever operations you plan
to provide for the type as a whole. For example, type <type>point</>
- is represented as just two floating-point numbers, which it allows to be
- accessed as <literal>point[0]</> and <literal>point[1]</>.
+ is represented as just two floating-point numbers, each can be accessed using
+ <literal>point[0]</> and <literal>point[1]</>.
Note that
this facility only works for fixed-length types whose internal form
is exactly a sequence of identical fixed-length fields. A subscriptable