Structures

[Aaron Brady]

On Nov 3, 3:45 pm, Ben Finney <bignose+hates-s... at benfinney.id.au>
wrote:
> "Paulo J. Matos" <pocma... at gmail.com> writes:
>
> > On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 12:32 PM, Ben Finney
> > <bignose+hates-s... at benfinney.id.au> 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.

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