Alf P. Steinbach wrote:
* Steve Howell:
This thread is interesting on many levels. What is the core question
that is being examined here?
I think that regarding the technical it is whether a Python name refers
to an object or not. I maintain that it does, and that the reference can
be copied, and that the semantics of the language requires this and is
defined in terms of this. Steve Holden, D'Aprano and many others
maintain that there are no references, or that if there are then they're
only an implementation aspect, i.e. that conceiveable one could have an
implementation without them.
Regarding some other issues it seems to be a childish exercise in
flaming, a flame war, with claims of insanity, incompetence, lying
(that's actually from me, I reacted a bit strongly to faked quoting +
conclusions from that in a posting not appearing on Usenet but on the
Python mail list), etc. etc. ad nauseam, sprinkled with
misrepresentations etc. I don't know the point of that.
It's a pity that no-one has gone far enough to trigger Godwin's Law...
;-)
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