Fredrik Lundh wrote:
It's not only misleading, it's also a seriously flawed reading of the original text - the Algol 60 report explicitly talks about assignment of *values*.
Do you agree that an expression in Python has a value? Do you agree that it makes sense to talk about assigning that value to something? If so, what is there to stop us from applying the Algol definition to Python? -- Greg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list