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Creating your own record types in Icon

In the Icon language, a record is a container for a set of named fields. For example, a record describing a college course might have fields for the department name, course number, title, and description.

Records in Icon are similar to features available in other programming languages, such as the ``struct'' declaration in C, or the ``record'' declaration in Pascal.

As with Icon's lists, a field in a record can contain anything. You can store integers, reals, lists, tables, even other records in the fields of a record.

• To learn how to define a new record type in Icon, see declaring an Icon record type.
• Once you have defined the record type, to learn how to make instances of the record, see creating an Icon record object
• To store and retrieve values from fields of the record, see storing and retrieving field values.