What other languages use the same data model as Python?

Gregory Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Sat May 7 18:39:39 EDT 2011


Chris Angelico wrote:

> I think "manipulate" here means things like pointer arithmetic,

I don't believe that allowing arithmetic on pointers
is a prerequisite to considering them first-class values.
You can't do arithmetic on pointers in Pascal, for
example, but nobody argues that Pascal pointers are
not values.

-- 
Greg



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