On 12/09/2015 05:06, Random832 wrote:
Mark Lawrence <breamore...@yahoo.co.uk> writes:
On 12/09/2015 01:11, random...@fastmail.us wrote:
If everything in Python is an object, how can it assign a pointer?
Especially how do Jython and IronPython assign pointers?
The Java and .NET runtimes also have pointers, they just don't [usually]
call them pointers, just like Python doesn't call them pointers (a match
made in... well, somewhere starting with an H, for sure).
Honestly, whether you want to call the thing a pointer or a reference,
you have to call it *something*, and I think "reference" is a worse fit
based on its connotations from C++. Whatever you call it, it's an arrow
on a diagram.
I think pointer is even worse because of its connection with C and hence
cPython. What is wrong with object if that is the only thing Python
knows about?
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