References, and avoiding use of ???variable???

[Ben Finney]

Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> writes:

> 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?

Assignment binds a reference to a value.

A name is a special kind of reference.

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