anything like C++ references?

[Aahz]

In article <mailman.1058150840.26704.python-list at python.org>,
Ian Bicking  <ianb at colorstudy.com> wrote:
>On Sun, 2003-07-13 at 20:32, Aahz wrote:
>> In article <mailman.1058126720.6756.python-list at python.org>,
>> Ian Bicking  <ianb at colorstudy.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>(Admittedly, some confusion may occur because these very different
>>>operations use the same syntax:
>>>
>>>  x = 10
>>>  x[0] = 10
>>>  obj.x = 10
>>>
>>>The second and third are entirely different from the first.)
>> 
>> No, they aren't.  They are precisely the same; they just have different
>> assignment targets.
>
>Sure they are different.  The first is a primitive operation binding the
>variable x.  The second gets x, and calls x.__setitem__(0, 10), and the
>third is equivalent to setattr(obj, 'x', 10).
>
>The first is primitive syntax.  I suppose you could say that it could be
>reduced to operations on locals() and globals(), but I feel like that's
>a detail that is best not brought up ;)  The local and global scope are
>not as flexible as other objects The other two are really just syntactic
>sugar.

You've got a good point, but I think my point is just as valid.  Which
viewpoint is more appropriate depends on the circumstance.
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