On 2006-08-04, Gerhard Fiedler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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)
A variable is not an object associated to a name. It is not the object that is the variable. > as long as we keep in mind that it is not actually a variable" :) Variable is a term that comes from mathematics. No language variable is exactly like the mathematical notion, but if I had to choose I would say that lisp, smalltalk and python variables come closer than C, ada or pascal variables. -- Antoon Pardon -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
