On 2014-02-28, Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> wrote: > "Mark H. Harris" <harrismh...@gmail.com> writes: >> So, yeah, thinking about variables is just not going away. > > Right. I would like, ideally, for the Python documentation to > avoid mentioning that term entirely; and I would hope for that > to promote a better understanding of Python's data model. > > The wider programming community, though, will no doubt continue > to use that term to refer to various (incompatible) data > models, and I certainly don't expect the Python community to > pretend it doesn't exist.
I like the characteristic of Python that assignment and argument passing work the same way. If only C were so simple! The tutorial makes things sound more high-falutin' than that [Tutorial 4.6 Defining Functions]: The actual parameters (arguments) to a function call are introduced in the local symbol table of the called function when it is called; thus, arguments are passed using call by value (where the value is always an object reference, not the value of the object). [...] How about: The actual parameters (arguments) to a function call are passed via assignment to the variables in the local symbol table of the called function. Am I oversimplifying? -- Neil Cerutti -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
