Label-Value (was: Re: Inheriting the @ sign from Ruby)

[Rainer Deyke]

"Alex Martelli" <aleaxit at yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:91a1vr02b02 at news2.newsguy.com...
> There is no value *IN* x.
>
> A variable *REFERS TO* 'a value' (aka 'an object').

If somebody really wants mutable integer objects, they're not that hard to
create.

class MutableInt(UserInt.UserInt):
  def set(self, value):
    self.data = value

x = MutableInt(2) + MutableInt(2)
print x
x.set(5)
print x


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