On Jan 6, 9:20 pm, Mark Wooding <m...@distorted.org.uk> wrote: > ru...@yahoo.com <ru...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > Is not the proper term "aliasing"? Perhaps Python "variables" should > > be called "alises". > > No. The proper term is most definitely `binding': see SICP, for > example. (Wikipedia has a link to the full text.)
I thought you were objecting to Python's use of the term "binding" when you wrote: > Unfortunately, this practice causes other confusion, since `binding' is > often used (in other language communities, notably Lisp and the > functional languages) to describe the association between names and > slots that hold references. in response to someone talking about "...all those who use the term \"name binding\" instead of variable assignment...". -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
