clipka wrote:
> There may be talk about "instantiating" with
> regard to the data structure, but not with regard to the module as a whole,
> which might contain additional data structures such as a dedicated heap for the
> strings to live in.

Indeed, this is the generally accepted difference between a class and a 
module, in programming language theory. You only "instantiate" a module (aka 
"package") once, or once per actual type if it's generic.

-- 
   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   "We'd like you to back-port all the changes in 2.0
    back to version 1.0."
   "We've done that already. We call it 2.0."

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