Gregory Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz> writes: > Ben Finney wrote: > > That whole chapter of the tutorial talks about “variable” and “variable > > assignment”, when IMO it should avoid those terms and use the clearer > > terminology of “reference”, “name”, and “binding a name to a value”. > > What about all the other things that can be assigned > to but aren't names? (List and dict elements, attributes, > etc.) What do you suggest calling them?
Assignment binds a reference to a value. A name is a special kind of reference. -- \ “We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question that | `\ divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of | _o__) being correct.” —Niels Bohr (to Wolfgang Pauli), 1958 | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
