Newbie question abt __getitem__ and __iter__

[Chris Tavares]

"karthik Guru" <karthikg at aztec.soft.net> wrote in message
news:mailman.1006174588.23695.python-list at python.org...
> hi all,
>
> what other languages support treating a class as a collection of objects
and
> allowing indexed access to it's constituents?
>
> I also liked the iter() concept and the way it works.
> I saw C# adopting both these things.
>
> But which language supported it first?
>
> thanks,
> karthik.
>

Probably Smalltalk or Lisp - it seems that all of modern computer science is
trying desperately to get back to what we already had working just fine in
1970. :-)

-Chris