Terminology: "reference" versus "pointer"

[Gregory Ewing]

Emile van Sebille wrote:

> Shroedingers-cat-was-just-a-cat-in-a-box-too-ly y'rs,

The real question is, if you kill Schroedinger's cat, does
Heisenberg's cat die too? If so, then either they're the
same cat, or they're two entangled cats.

This suggests an alternative model for Python computation.
All data is represented by cats. A variable is a box
containing a cat. Assignment replaces one cat with an
entangled copy of another cat, so that mutating either
one affects the other.

-- 
Greg