greg 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?
Python's definition of the word "value" can be found in the language
reference:
http://docs.python.org/reference/datamodel.html#objects-values-and-types
Using that definition, a Python expression yields an object, not an
object value.
For comparison, here's Algol's definition of the word "value":
"A value is an ordered set of numbers (special case: a single number),
an ordered set of logical values (special case: a single logical value),
or a label."
It should be obvious to anyone that Python is not Algol.
> If so, what is there to stop us from applying the Algol
> definition to Python?
The fact that we're talking about Python. Python is not Algol.
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