On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 5:44 PM, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
> I don't think the meaning of the word "value" can be restricted in that
> way. Let's try to "refactor" the examples I had found in the wild:
>
> "How to get the value of a variable given its name in a string"
> => How to get the object a
Ben Finney :
> Indeed, in the past I used the term “value” as synonymous (in Python
> context) with the term “object”. I have become convinced through this
> discussion that I should no longer use the terms that way.
>
> [...]
>
> The concepts are distinct, so I apologise for misleadingly conflati