References, and avoiding use of ???variable???
Gregory Ewing
greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Fri Feb 28 22:08:45 EST 2014
Ben Finney wrote:
> That whole chapter of the tutorial talks about “variable” and “variable
> assignment”, when IMO it should avoid those terms and use the clearer
> terminology of “reference”, “name”, and “binding a name to a value”.
What about all the other things that can be assigned
to but aren't names? (List and dict elements, attributes,
etc.) What do you suggest calling them?
--
Greg
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