On Saturday, September 12, 2015 at 11:57:01 AM UTC+5:30, Ben Finney wrote: > Random832 writes: > > > Ben Finney writes: > > > The reference value is inaccessible to the program, it can only be > > > used to get at the referenced object. > > > > What does it mean to access something, if not to do some operation on > > it? Getting the referenced object is the operation you can do with it. > > You've clearly committed to some ontology that just doesn't match the > Python data model.
How about lay-English ontology in which "point to" and "refer to" are fairly synonymous? -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
