<div dir="auto">Nevertheless the C meaning *is* the etymology of the module name. :-)<br><br><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature">--Guido (mobile)</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 19, 2017 16:54, "Chris Angelico" <<a href="mailto:rosuav@gmail.com">rosuav@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 11:38 AM, Steven D'Aprano <<a href="mailto:steve@pearwood.info">steve@pearwood.info</a>> wrote:<br>
> On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 05:16:28AM +1100, Chris Angelico wrote:<br>
><br>
>> To be fair, the name "struct" implies a C-style structure, which<br>
>> _does_ have a fixed size, or at least fixed offsets for its members<br>
><br>
><br>
> Ah, the old "everyone thinks in C terms" fallacy raises its ugly head<br>
> agan :-)<br>
><br>
> The name doesn't imply any such thing to me, or those who haven't been<br>
> raised on C. It implies the word "structure", which has no implication<br>
> of being fixed-width.<br>
<br>
Fair point. Objection retracted - and it was only minor anyway. This<br>
would be a handy feature to add. +1.<br>
<br>
ChrisA<br>
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