The “does Python have variables?” debate

Mark Lawrence breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk
Wed May 7 04:51:55 EDT 2014


On 07/05/2014 07:18, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
> Ned Batchelder <ned at nedbatchelder.com>:
>
>> Why is "variable" sacrosanct and can only be used to describe C
>> semantics, but we're OK reusing class, int, and function?
>
> The Python language specification calls them variables; the terminology
> discussion should end there.
>

I entirely agree.  This discussion has been done to death an infinite 
number of times.  It fits into my "I couldn't care less" category, I 
just want to write code.

-- 
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask 
what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence

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