Name

UPDATE-RECORD-FROM-SLOT —

Function

Syntax

       (UPDATE-RECORD-FROM-SLOT OBJECT SLOT &KEY DATABASE) [generic] => 

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Description

Updates the value stored in the column represented by the slot, specified by the CLOS slot name SLOT, of View Class instance OBJECT. DATABASE defaults to *DEFAULT-DATABASE* and specifies the database in which the update is made only if OBJECT is not associated with a database. In this case, a record is created in DATABASE and the attribute represented by SLOT is initialised from the value of the supplied slots with other attributes having default values. Furthermore, OBJECT becomes associated with DATABASE.

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