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The Record package covers the basic concept of a record and its structure. The package takes a broad view of the notion of
record, including both traditional data records such as those stored in files and databases, as well as programming language
structured data types. In fact, the concepts described here can be used as a foundation for extension packages describing
any information structure that is fundamentally hierarchical, or “nested? in nature such as documents, questionnaires, and
organizational structures.