Objects in Python

[Chris Angelico]

On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 10:02 PM, Steven D'Aprano
<steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info> wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Aug 2012 16:22:05 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 3:45 PM, Evan Driscoll <driscoll at cs.wisc.edu>
>> wrote:
>>> Third, and more wackily, you could technically create a C
>>> implementation that works like Python, where it stores variables (whose
>>> addresses aren't taken) in a dict keyed by name, and generates code
>>> that on a variable access looks up the value by accessing that dict
>>> using the name of the variable.
>>
>> That would be a reasonable way to build a C interactive interpreter.
>
> No it wouldn't. Without fixed addresses, the language wouldn't be able to
> implement pointers. C without pointers isn't C, it is something else.
> Possibly called Python :)

The insertion of a single rule will do it. Let it stand that &x is the
string "x" and there you are, out of your difficulty at once!

Okay, that may be a bit of a fairy tale ending and completely illogical.

ChrisA