On Nov 4, 5:02 pm, Joe Strout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Nov 4, 2008, at 3:42 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > > When we're talking about the value of a variable in Python, why on > > earth > > would you drag entities that do not exist in Python into the > > discussion? > > I don't, but others do, for example bringing up C structs or C++ > objects on the stack, which don't exist in Python (Python objects live > on the heap, and all you have on the stack are references to them; the
I actually saw an implementation of Python once that did not have references-to-objects on its stack. It kept them on the heap, and kept references to those containers in another container. The second container was a global variable, so that was on the stack at least. This strongly seems to interfere with your analogy to C++'s c-b-v mode. On the other hand, you could say that VB.NET's c-b-v mode is not true to C++'s c-b-v mode, in which case lots of people will just side with C ++. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
