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Once you have defined the fields that go into a given record type (see declaring an Icon record type), you can create one record of that type by using the record's name followed by parentheses.
For example, suppose your program contains this declaration:
record complex ( r, i )
This expression would create a record of type ``complex''
and store it in variable ``x'':
x := complex ( );
If you wish, you can supply initial values for the fields by
placing them inside the parentheses. For example, this expression
y := complex ( 0, 5.9 );
would set ``y'' to a record of type ``complex''
whose ``r'' field would contain the integer 0 and whose
``i'' field would contain the real number 5.9.
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