On 2/19/18 9:54 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Mon, 19 Feb 2018 13:28:26 +0000, Paul Moore wrote:
[1] The most basic question, which people making such claims often can't
answer, is "Do you mean that values are strongly typed, or that names
are? Or did you mean that variables are, because if so Python doesn't
even have variables in the sense that you mean" Programming language
semantics are complex.
An excellent point.
The distinction between typing *values* and *names* is a good one.
I guess I'll have to continue to grit my teeth as people say, "Python
doesn't have variables." Why can't we say, "Python's variables work
differently than other languages"?
--Ned.
--
https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
