On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 2:04 AM, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > Personally, I think that trying to be general and talk about "many other > languages" is a failing strategy. Better to be concrete: C, Pascal, > Algol, Fortran, VB (I think) are good examples of the "value in a box at > a fixed location" model. Of those, Algol, Pascal and Fortran are either > obsolete or legacy, and C is by far the most well-known by people here. > (For some reason, few people seem to migrate from VB to Python.) Hence, > "C-like".
Agreed. So long as the statement is "Python doesn't have variables", I'm going to have to disagree; but "Python doesn't have variables the way C does" is definitely true, and probably as helpful as the shorter version. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
