Carsten Haese wrote: > On Wed, 2007-08-08 at 08:52 -0400, Steve Holden wrote: [...] > > The problem is your ambiguous use of the word "assignment." In the sense > of the Language Reference, "any assignment to y" is a simple assignment > that always modifies a namespace and never modifies an object. In that > sense, the mutability of None really isn't the issue. > > If you use the broader sense in which "assignment" includes augmented > assignments, the mutability of None does become relevant. > > I agree that greg's delivery was unduly disrespectful, but I think he > was making a valid point. > > Hope this helps clear up the confusion. > > Best regards, > And this is why we should all be using the term "binding", which is normal in Python. I'll try to be more careful in future.
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