On 9 Oct 2006 11:27:40 GMT, Antoon Pardon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I honestly don't see why "variable" would be an inappropiate word to use. > AFAIU, python assignment seems to behave much like lisp and smalltalk > and I never heard that those communities found the word "variable" > inappropiate to use. And since the word variable originally comes > from mathematics and IMHO the mathematical semantics are closer > to the lisp/smalltalk/python semantics than the C/algol/pascal/ada > semantics I don't see why "variable" is seen as "sloppy talk"
Um, that's what I usually use anyway... :) -- Theerasak -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
