Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!aioe.org!feeder.news-service.com!216.196.110.146.MISMATCH!border3.nntp.ams.giganews.com!border1.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!uio.no!nntp.uib.no!svn.schaathun.net!not-for-mail From: Hans Georg Schaathun Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: What other languages use the same data model as Python? Date: Tue, 10 May 2011 16:40:05 +0100 Organization: University of Bergen Lines: 17 Message-ID: References: <4dbd1dbf$0$29991$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> <77f64071-b288-404c-8280-b2c61ba77f06@n10g2000yqf.googlegroups.com> <4dc12fb4$0$29991$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> <87mxj2f8f4.fsf@benfinney.id.au> <4dc2c582$0$29991$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> <92rjsiFfsoU1@mid.individual.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: vannskorpion.bccs.uib.no X-Trace: toralf.uib.no 1305041307 52007 129.177.20.20 (10 May 2011 15:28:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@uib.no NNTP-Posting-Date: 10 May 2011 15:28:27 GMT User-Agent: slrn/pre1.0.0-18 (Linux) Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.python:5074 On Wed, 11 May 2011 01:27:36 +1000, Chris Angelico 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. I am afraid we just need to cope with it, overloading I mean. -- :-- Hans Georg