On 2008-10-29, Antoon Pardon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 2008-10-17, Joe Strout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>> Python's assignment semantics (as opposed to its "object
>>> handling, a term for which I have no referent) are not the
>>> same as those of, say C.
>>
>> They are, though. The only difference you've pointed out is
>> that *numbers* are different in Python vs. C, and that's an
>> internal implementation detail I was blissfully unaware of
>> until this discussion. (I'm grateful to know it, but it
>> really doesn't matter in day-to-day coding.)
>
> No they are not. An assignment in Python is like making an
> (new) alias/reference, while an asignment in C is copying the
> content of one variable into another.
That's been pointed out over and over and over, but some people
seem unable or unwilling to grasp the difference.
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