Rustom Mody <rustompm...@gmail.com> writes: > 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
Speaking of pictures and names in Python http://python.net/~goodger/projects/pycon/2007/idiomatic/handout.html#other-languages-have-variables -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
