Talk:Record (computer science)

This is the talk page for discussing improvements to the Record (computer science) article.
This is not a forum for general discussion of the article's subject.

Put new text under old text. Click here to start a new topic.
New to Wikipedia? Welcome! Learn to edit; get help.

Article policies

Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL

Computing: Software Mid‑importance

	This article is within the scope of WikiProject Computing, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of computers, computing, and information technology on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.ComputingWikipedia:WikiProject ComputingTemplate:WikiProject ComputingComputing articles
Mid	This article has been rated as Mid-importance on the project's importance scale.
	This article is supported by WikiProject Software (assessed as High-importance).

This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 17 January 2022 and 30 April 2022. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Josephbubb (article contribs).

Call Detail Record[edit]

For some reason, the wikipedia page for Call Detail Record redirects here. It should not. A call detail record is a specific type of information stored by telecom companies. It is often used in computer science / EE / etc. research for machine learning, etc. It is also used for telecommunications billing. Google seems to believe there is a separate wikipedia page for this, as the google "blurb" matches my description, and not the "record (computer science)" description. I'm a newbie here so... how do we fix this? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.59.22.143 (talk) 21:39, 5 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

"C tutorial"[edit]

To the anonymous IP who in their edit summary said "Does this C tutorial really belong here anyway?", I think it shouldn't be. The abstract description says about the same amount about records in a much more widely applicable way in about two sentences. Maybe it could be made more newbie-friendly, but there's no need to do more than mention that C has support for records and that they're called structs. This is why I made the rather drastic change I did. I suspect this was the result of a merge of some sort. Deco 06:15, 1 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Retrieved old page from early 2005 to make a page on the notion of record type[edit]

This page used to redirect to object composition from spring 2005. I retrieved the old page to have a page on the notion of record type, notion that I could not find described elsewhere.

I'm still unclear whether it makes sense:

to keep a reference to the record data structure in the article, a notion which is referred from the record disambiguation page,
to keep the page name record (computer science) rather than giving it a name record type.

Hugo Herbelin (talk) 14:57, 27 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Merge proposition[edit]

The retrieval was a good thing! I propose to merge it with "Storage record", which is a weirdly named stub. "Record" is a very basic computing concept, so I think we should point out the history and chronology (first of all). --Kubanczyk (talk) 20:25, 4 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Use of the term "Pickling"[edit]

It may be beneficial to change the term Pickling to serialization as pickling is a python-specific word for serializattion which is unlikely to be understood by those not familiar with the Python language. I propose changing the word pickling to serialization and providing a link to the existing article Crippledsmurf (talk) 11:49, 4 July 2009 (UTC) 2A02:587:4109:3900:C527:40EF:5DFE:1493 (talk) 09:58, 18 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

elaborate more on information theory[edit]

More names[edit]

Shape (Hack)
Data class (Kotlin)
Case class (Scala)
Tuple (Swift) - Swift has "tuple"s with named fields

Galzigler (talk) 21:53, 4 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]