On 2006-08-04 12:12:44, Antoon Pardon wrote: >> That's possible. I wouldn't expect too many C programmers to have any >> notion of "id of a variable". I, for example, never thought about such >> thing before this thread. > > But even in Python we don't speak of "id of a variable". It is not the > variable that has an id. It is the object that is currently attached to > the variable that has an id. Yes we can use "id of a variable" as a > shortcut for the correct formulation as long as you keep in mind that it > is not the variable itself that has an id.
This sounds a bit like saying "yes we can use the term 'variable' as a shortcut for the correct formulation (object associated to a name) as long as we keep in mind that it is not actually a variable" :) Gerhard -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
