Structures

[Aaron Brady]

On Nov 3, 5:38 pm, "Paulo J. Matos" <pocma... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 10:19 PM, Aaron Brady <castiro... at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Nov 3, 3:45 pm, Ben Finney <bignose+hates-s... at benfinney.id.au>
> > wrote:
> >> "Paulo J. Matos" <pocma... at gmail.com> writes:
> >> 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.
>
> Well, I wouldn't dare to say I know a lot of languages but the ones I
> do provide mechanisms to define structures / records: C, C++, Scheme,
> Common Lisp, Haskell, SML, Ocaml.

I don't know even half of those.  What about Perl?  Does anyone know
that?

> My question was more directed to : if
> there aren't structures in Python, what do Pythonists use instead?

Just a blank object, I imagine.