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diff --git a/doc/source/reference/internals.code-explanations.rst b/doc/source/reference/internals.code-explanations.rst index 580661cb3..f01300e25 100644 --- a/doc/source/reference/internals.code-explanations.rst +++ b/doc/source/reference/internals.code-explanations.rst @@ -74,9 +74,9 @@ optimizations that by-pass this mechanism, but the point of the data- type abstraction is to allow new data-types to be added. One of the built-in data-types, the void data-type allows for -arbitrary records containing 1 or more fields as elements of the +arbitrary structured types containing 1 or more fields as elements of the array. A field is simply another data-type object along with an offset -into the current record. In order to support arbitrarily nested +into the current structured type. In order to support arbitrarily nested fields, several recursive implementations of data-type access are implemented for the void type. A common idiom is to cycle through the elements of the dictionary and perform a specific operation based on @@ -184,7 +184,7 @@ The array scalars also offer the same methods and attributes as arrays with the intent that the same code can be used to support arbitrary dimensions (including 0-dimensions). The array scalars are read-only (immutable) with the exception of the void scalar which can also be -written to so that record-array field setting works more naturally +written to so that structured array field setting works more naturally (a[0]['f1'] = ``value`` ). |