## page was renamed from TCPL/A.4.3 Derived types

=== A.4.3 Derived types ===

Beside the basic types, there is a conceptually infinite class of derived types constructed from the fundamental types in the following ways:

  arrays of objects of a given type;
  functions returning objects of a given type;
  pointers to objects of a given type;
  structures containing a sequence of objects of various types;
  unions capable of containing any of one of several objects of various types.

In general these methods of constructing objects can be applied recursively.