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From: Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz>
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Subject: Re: What other languages use the same data model as Python?
Date: Sun, 08 May 2011 10:39:39 +1200
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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