On Nov 3, 3:45 pm, Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Paulo J. Matos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 12:32 PM, Ben Finney > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm wondering a more fundamental question: What are structures? > > > That is, what do *you* mean by that term; without knowing that, an > > > answer isn't likely to be meaningful. > > > Well, I guess that everyone pretty much gets since it exists in > > every other language as struct, or define-structure, or whatever is > > the syntax. > > Take care with broad sweeping statements about “every other language”, > or even “most other languages”. They are usually flat-out wrong: > there is a stunning variety of different approaches and concepts in > programming languages, with very little common to even a majority of > them.
Yea, verily. How many languages do you think that is? Feel free to count C and C++ as different ones. "Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two...." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Hand_Grenade_of_Antioch#Usage_instructions -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
