Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com>: > I've explained Python's (or JavaScript's, since they're the same) > object model to a number of novice programmers without any > difficulties, without talking about pointers or invisible values or > any of that junk. There are just two things to explain: the concept of > names referring to objects, and variable scope.
The JavaScript spec wrt assignment etc is actually a bit difficult to understand: <URL: https://www.ecma-international.org/ecma-262/5.1/>. Scheme, which also shares the same object model with Python, has a very down-to-earth specification that uses the term "location:" <URL: http://schemers.org/Documents/Standards/R5RS/HTML/r5rs-Z-H-6.ht ml#%_sec_3.4> Marko -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
