Nested function scope problem

[Bruno Desthuilliers]

Gerhard Fiedler a écrit :
> On 2006-07-27 13:44:29, Bruno Desthuilliers wrote:
> 
> 
>>What bother me with the "hold" term is that I understand it as meaning
>>that the name is some kind of container by itself - which it is not.
>>Consider the following:
>>
>>d = dict()
>>d['name'] = 'parrot'
>>
>>Would you say that the string "name" 'holds a reference' to the string
>>"parrot" ? Obviously not - it's the dict that holds this reference.
> 
> 
> Right... I think in some cases it is normal to say in such a situation that
> "'name' refers to 'parrot'" (for example when talking about the problem
> domain, rather than the implementation) -- independently of the
> implementation of the "reference" (which could be a pointer, or a
> dictionary, or a database table).

Of course. And FWIW, in day to day life, I use the word 'variable' like 
anyone else !-)

> But, I'm a convert already :)
> 
> Gerhard
>