On 2006-07-27 13:44:29, Bruno Desthuilliers wrote: > What bother me with the "hold" term is that I understand it as meaning > that the name is some kind of container by itself - which it is not. > Consider the following: > > d = dict() > d['name'] = 'parrot' > > Would you say that the string "name" 'holds a reference' to the string > "parrot" ? Obviously not - it's the dict that holds this reference.
Right... I think in some cases it is normal to say in such a situation that "'name' refers to 'parrot'" (for example when talking about the problem domain, rather than the implementation) -- independently of the implementation of the "reference" (which could be a pointer, or a dictionary, or a database table). But, I'm a convert already :) Gerhard -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
