On 08-Jun-11 23:33, Ashwini Oruganti wrote:
On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 11:31 AM, Steve Willoughby <st...@alchemy.com <mailto:st...@alchemy.com>> wrote:The value 5 is an integer-class object. But now what is "Integer-class"? Isn't integer a data type? I mean there is no concept of "classes" in C, and yet in C, we can write
In Python, everything is an object, so integers are objects. In C, integers are a fundamental data type. C doesn't have objects at all.
Classes are data types, too, though, (the combination of a data representation and the set of behaviors that define what that data does in your program).
int x = 5; Will "5", then be called an integer class object?
In an object-oriented language, yes. In C, no, since it doesn't even have classes.
What exactly is a class now? I thought is a collection of variables and (or) associated functions. Am I missing something here?
But in an object oriented language such as Python, we have classes and objects, and integers are just another class of data objects. In this case, it's a very simple data structure with an associated set of methods to do things like add integers together, compare them with each other, etc.
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