strange behavor....

[Emile van Sebille]

On 11/13/2010 3:28 PM Mark Wooding said...
> Steven D'Aprano<steve at REMOVE-THIS-cybersource.com.au>  writes:
>
>> On Sat, 13 Nov 2010 20:01:42 +0000, Mark Wooding wrote:
>>> Some object types are primitive, provided by the runtime system;
>>> there are no `internal' variables to be assigned in these cases.
>>
>> You seem to be making up your own terminology here, or at least using
>> terminology that isn't normally used in the languages I'm used to.
>
> I was attempting to define possibly unfamiliar terms as I went along.
> Did you not notice?
>

You both make valid points when viewed from the specific writer's 
perspective.  I think you're speaking past each other because Steven and 
others are explaining terms in their common python context in an attempt 
to have Mark understand and use them similarly, which is of most benefit 
to our community.  Mark on the other hand is attempting to make sense of 
our common terms in light of similarly termed constructs from his 
experience, which of course we all have done and do as we continue to 
learn, but with an apparent effort to change our common usage.

Mark says "The latter is not an assignment: it's a disguised method 
call."  We all know that _everything_ is a disguised method call and we 
call the disguised method call that resembles a statement where the LHS 
is separated from the RHS by a single equals sign assignment.

In the long run, Mark can choose to either further and complete his 
understanding and adopt python's commonly understood terminology; or 
continue to point to how in other languages the usage of terms also used 
in python conflicts with the established meaning of those terms as 
implemented in python.

The difference between "developing contributor" and "trolling" turns on 
when this acceptance starts.

My .02.

Emile