On Jan 6, 7:03 am, Mark Wooding <m...@distorted.org.uk> wrote: ... > > It seems that you don't include in the Python community all those who > > use the term "name binding" instead of variable assignment > > specifically because it gives new users a clue that Python is not the > > same as C. > > Unfortunately, this practice causes other confusion, since `binding' is > often used (in other language communities, notably Lisp and the > functional languages) to describe the association between names and > slots that hold references.
Is not the proper term "aliasing"? Perhaps Python "variables" should be called "alises". >From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aliasing_(computing) "aliasing describes a situation in which a data location in memory can be accessed through different symbolic names in the program." -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
