... al.)¹

You do not need to make such is* functions unless you have need of them personally.

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... constructor²

Not counting the copy constructor.

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... methods().³

You might wonder why which is an index rather than a String, which would be somewhat safer. The reason is efficiency -- the system can turn a method name into an integer fairly efficiently, and a case on an integer is more efficient than a long set of if (string1 == string2) statements.

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... Record.⁴

However, it will be more efficient to transport GlishRecord because a conversion will be avoided.

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... message⁵

The message in an uncaught exception will be presented to the user, along with the name of the class and function he invoked that ultimately resulted in the exception.

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... directly.⁶

It is also technically feasible to allow the user to invoke this functionality from the Unix command line, however this is presently not a high priority for us.

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... dsquarer⁷

Typically, the server name of the binary on disk will either be the name of the most important class that it is serving, e.g., image, or it will be a name descriptive of the types of classes that it is serving, e.g., numerics.

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