On 2019-10-16 21:48, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Wed, Oct 16, 2019 at 05:27:31PM -0000, Steve Jorgensen wrote:
I feel like this proposal is not quite right, but maybe the idea will provoke
some thoughts about something similar that -would- be right.
The idea first came to me upon realizing that since `namedtuple`
classes have no special base class beyond `tuple`, there should be
some way of identifying them as being primarily structural, even
though they are instances of `tuple` which, in other cases, usually
means something that is primarily sequential.
I don't think that "structural" is the word you are looking for. Lists
and tuples and sets are all structural. That's why they're called "data
structures".
Perhaps "collection of named fields"? Sorry, I can't think of a
shorter name.
[snip]
In Pascal it would be called a "record".
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