On Saturday, September 12, 2015 at 8:11:49 PM UTC+5:30, Laura Creighton wrote: > In a message of Sat, 12 Sep 2015 05:46:35 -0700, Rustom Mody writes: > >How about lay-English ontology in which "point to" and "refer to" are fairly > >synonymous? > > This I have found is important in teaching, which is why I favour 'bind' > and 'binding' -- rather than pointer, pointer, refer to, referring.
Well we can play humpty dumpty and make any word mean whatever we like. However if you are a teacher you will recognize a need for pictures. And (as far as I can tell) "Random832" finds a need for the box-n-arrow diagrams of classic data-structure books -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
