Composite Field
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2866045
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Composite Field
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The objective of this project is to build a field-based composite data type.
What is a composite data type? It's basically a field comprised of other fields.
The benefit of a field type is a more direct correlation to the entity it belongs to. This approach aligns composite functionality with standard field-based functionality.
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