Structural Accommodation

A theme in my blogs is how the "structure" of data - rather than just the "content" - affects what that data can say and is capable of doing. In particular, I suggest that certain structures tend to reinforce certain contents; this means that a structural imposition can have an effect similar to a contextual imposition. Structure is an interesting conversation because, at first glance, arguably data has none. Structure is something that is attributed to physical things. But data normally has no physical existence - at least not in a tangible sense except maybe in relation to storage devices. Yet I am certain that almost everyone who has programmed in an object-oriented language has had to deal with multifarious data structures.