code: def make_val(clas,*vals):
      "this doesn't need to be a classmethod -- it can be a normal instance method"
      if clas.VALUE is None: raise TypeError('null meta-information in class for VALUE')
      clas.type_check(zip(*clas.VALUE)[1],vals,'VALUE')
      return msgpack.dumps(valsf make_val(clas,*vals):
      "this doesn't need to be a classmethod -- it can be a normal instance method"
      if clas.VALUE is None: raise TypeError('null meta-information in class for VALUE')
      clas.type_check(zip(*clas.VALUE)[1],vals,'VALUE')
      return msgpack.dumps(vals)
docs: this doesn't need to be a classmethod -- it can be a normal instance method