Nevertheless the C meaning *is* the etymology of the module name. :-) --Guido (mobile) On Jan 19, 2017 16:54, "Chris Angelico" <rosuav@gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 11:38 AM, Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> wrote:
On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 05:16:28AM +1100, Chris Angelico wrote:
To be fair, the name "struct" implies a C-style structure, which _does_ have a fixed size, or at least fixed offsets for its members
Ah, the old "everyone thinks in C terms" fallacy raises its ugly head agan :-)
The name doesn't imply any such thing to me, or those who haven't been raised on C. It implies the word "structure", which has no implication of being fixed-width.
Fair point. Objection retracted - and it was only minor anyway. This would be a handy feature to add. +1.
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