A class question

[Donn Ingle]

> While Java's variable declarations bear a superficial (syntactical)
> similarity to C, their semantics is in fact equivalent to the
> object-reference semantics we know in Python. 

I come from Z80A/GWBASIC/VB and a little C, I would describe a Python
variable as a pointer - in that it contains the address of something. 
What that "something" is, is a little fuzzy. Right now I imagine it's to a
kind of structure which has meta info about the object as well as it's
actual address.

How far off would that be?

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