Gerhard Fiedler a écrit : > On 2006-07-27 13:44:29, Bruno Desthuilliers wrote: > > >>What bother me with the "hold" term is that I understand it as meaning >>that the name is some kind of container by itself - which it is not. >>Consider the following: >> >>d = dict() >>d['name'] = 'parrot' >> >>Would you say that the string "name" 'holds a reference' to the string >>"parrot" ? Obviously not - it's the dict that holds this reference. > > > Right... I think in some cases it is normal to say in such a situation that > "'name' refers to 'parrot'" (for example when talking about the problem > domain, rather than the implementation) -- independently of the > implementation of the "reference" (which could be a pointer, or a > dictionary, or a database table).
Of course. And FWIW, in day to day life, I use the word 'variable' like anyone else !-) > But, I'm a convert already :) > > Gerhard > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list