Variables

[Richard Blackwood]

Indeed, but is it not a variable? Is a variable in programming not 
merely a name associated with a value (which can changed over the course 
of code execution)?

James Stroud wrote:

>I think, strictly speaking, foo would be a "name" in python.
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>>>>foo
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>Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
>NameError: name 'foo' is not defined
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>On Saturday 23 April 2005 07:20 pm, so sayeth Richard Blackwood:
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>>To All:
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>>    Folks, I need your help. I have a friend who claims that if I write:
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>>foo = 5
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>>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 variable.
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>>Thanks all!
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>>Richard B.
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