What other languages use the same data model as Python?

[Chris Angelico]

On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 1:40 AM, Hans Georg Schaathun <hg at schaathun.net> wrote:
> On Wed, 11 May 2011 01:27:36 +1000, Chris Angelico
>  <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:
> :  Language is for communication. If we're not using the same meanings
> :  for words, we will have problems.
>
> So if you adopt the word class to mean a type (or composite type),
> as in python, what word would you use for a class of types (as in
> haskell or ada)?
>
> I think there are too many meanings and too few words ...
>
> That's why some languages support overloading.

Of course. Nobody ever said that one name had to point to one value... oh wait.

Yes, Virginia, there is overloading.

Chris Angelico