Re: A name refers to an object, an object has a value, equality compares values

2015-11-25 Thread Chris Angelico
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

Re: A name refers to an object, an object has a value, equality compares values

2015-11-24 Thread Marko Rauhamaa
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