To All:
Folks, I need your help. I have a friend who claims that if I write:
foo = 5
then foo is NOT a variable, necessarily. If you guys can define for me
what a variable is and what qualifications you have to back you, I can
pass this along to, hopefully, convince him that foo is indeed a va
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NameError: name 'foo' is not defined
On Saturday 23 April 2005 07:20 pm, so sayeth Richard Blackwood:
To All:
Folks, I need your help. I have a friend who claims that if I write:
foo = 5
then foo is NOT a variable, necessarily. If you guys can
Robert Kern wrote:
Richard Blackwood wrote:
To All:
Folks, I need your help. I have a friend who claims that if I write:
foo = 5
then foo is NOT a variable, necessarily. If you guys can define for
me what a variable is and what qualifications you have to back you, I
can pass this along to
Steven Bethard wrote:
Richard Blackwood wrote:
Indeed, this language is math. My friend says that foo is a constant
and necessarily not a variable. If I had written foo = raw_input(),
he would say that foo is a variable.
Then what does he say if you write:
foo = 5
foo = 6
?
STeVe
He says that
Kent Johnson wrote:
Richard Blackwood wrote:
To All:
Folks, I need your help. I have a friend who claims that if I
write:
foo = 5
then foo is NOT a variable, necessarily.
Indeed, this language is math. My friend says that foo is a constant
and necessarily not a variable.
Well, we mostly
Robert Kern wrote:
Richard Blackwood wrote:
Kent Johnson wrote:
Richard Blackwood wrote:
To All:
Folks, I need your help. I have a friend who claims that if I
write:
foo = 5
then foo is NOT a variable, necessarily.
Indeed, this language is math. My friend says that foo is a
constant and
Mike Meyer wrote:
Richard Blackwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Robert Kern wrote:
Richard Blackwood wrote:
To All:
Folks, I need your help. I have a friend who claims that if I write:
foo = 5
then foo is NOT a variable, necessarily. If you guys can define for
me what a va
Dan Bishop wrote:
Richard Blackwood wrote:
Steven Bethard wrote:
Richard Blackwood wrote:
Indeed, this language is math. My friend says that foo is a
constant
and necessarily not a variable. If I had written foo =
raw_input(),
he would say that foo is a
Terry Reedy wrote:
"Richard Blackwood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Indeed, this language is math.
In mathematics, the word 'variable' is generally an undefined meta-term
that is *notorious* for having multiple possible meanings an
Bengt Richter wrote:
On Sat, 23 Apr 2005 22:45:14 -0400, Richard Blackwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Robert Kern wrote:
Richard Blackwood wrote:
To All:
Folks, I need your help. I have a friend who claims that if I write:
foo = 5
then foo is NOT a variable, necessarily.
Robert Kern wrote:
Richard Blackwood wrote:
Robert Kern wrote:
If you must, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variable
Fantastic, wikipedia deals precisely with the difference between
variables in mathematics versus programming. However, he would never
trust a definition from such an "unrepu
James Stroud wrote:
On Saturday 23 April 2005 10:25 pm, so sayeth Richard Blackwood:
Unfortunately that's not much of an option for me. We are working on a
project together so I am forced to either prove his notion incorrect or
I give in to his conception. *throws hands in air*
This
I thought I'd share a piece of the discussion a friend of mine is having
with a mathematician/programmer on this issue of variables:
int foo = 5;
Is foo not a variable? Within the scope of that statement, foo can be
no other value but 5. Is foo not a constant? Are constants and
variables not mu
code an inherent/native skill of all programmers? Two, is
Python a good language for simulation programming?
Thank you all!
- Richard Blackwood
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Okay, I really like that analogy. Not everything a carpenter can do requires an architect to draw up a blueprint though. For example, if I tell a carpenter I want a tree house with built-in seating and a window in the roof, no other requirements, can't they figure out how to do that on their own? S
So I can't develop and code the model simultaneously if I'm relying on
the programming skill of someone who doesn't understand what I'm
modelling? Also, say I (the hypothetical expert of knowledge domain X)
learn programming, an I necessarily going to know how to model X with
programming? When you
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