See English definition for “construct”.
Sequence
is the one element of the four defining keywords in the `Construct` context which is used to define the
others. The Sequence is
the fundamental construct which is more pattern then actual data.
The List is the
most common DataStructure.
The Set, (when
composed as a logical object which
can be operated on by the `Logic` keywords
to form PatternSets),
is a powerful and concise programming abstraction.
The String
abstraction’s objective it to handle any conceivable CharacterSet, and to facilitate
modeling language syntax in the CharacterStream.
The Sequence, List, and Set together all help define the String.
Virtually all functions and procedures create or utilize
some construct whether it is a Sequence, List, Set,
or String. All of these are
related concepts; they are all sometimes said to be
ListLike.
construct
n.
That which is built, formed, or constructed; esp., a
product of the uniting of immaterial elements; specif.:
a Psychol.
An intellectual construction; an object of thought which arises by a synthesis
or ordering of terms, elements, or factors; as, every
sense perception is a construct.
b. Gram.
The construct
state/form.
construct
v.t.
1. To construe, as a document. Obs.
Scot.
2. To put together the constituent
parts of (something) in
their proper place and order;
to build; form; make; as, to construct
and edifice.
3. To put together or set in order mentally; to arrange;
as, to construct a theory of ethics.
4. Gram.
To combine grammatically, as a verb or preposition,
with words to which it syntactically belongs.
5. Math.
To represent (one kind of mathematical magnitude) by another; specif., to draw
a figure of (an algebraic value or relation) by points, lines, or curves.
[Definition
from Websters1949Unabridged.]
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