>>>>> "Rhodri James" <rho...@wildebst.demon.co.uk> (RJ) wrote:
>RJ> The point was, and remains, that this newsgroup gets regular traffic >RJ> from people who expect Python's variables to act like C's variables, >RJ> demonstrating that describing them as "quite compatible" is somewhat >RJ> misleading. So let' study these postings carefully to see what the actual confusion is. I myself think that the confusion is not so much the variable concept but the vale vs. reference semantics of objects. As such the same thing plays a role in Java. Although the binding mechanisms in Java and Python are different I don't think the actual semantics are so much difference as to cause much confusion (with C it could be more). But such a study could reveal that. BTW. Which postings from (say) the last month did you have in mind? -- Piet van Oostrum <p...@cs.uu.nl> URL: http://pietvanoostrum.com [PGP 8DAE142BE17999C4] Private email: p...@vanoostrum.org -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
