What are modules really for?

[Magnus Lycka]

Terry Reedy wrote:
> However, everything is an instance of a class or type.

Except whitespace, comments, operators and statements!
(Did I miss anything?)

You can obviously argue whether a "variable" (or name if
you like) is an object, or just refers to an object, but
then we're getting philosophical I guess. C.f.
http://www.comviz.com.ulaval.ca/module1/Images/MagrittePipe.jpg
or http://www.fredosaurus.com/notes-cpp/arrayptr/60song.html