In <mailman.2796.1246997332.8015.python-l...@python.org> Chris Rebert <c...@rebertia.com> writes:
>You might find the following helpful (partially): >http://effbot.org/zone/call-by-object.htm Extremely helpful. Thanks! (I learned more from it than someone who will teach the stuff would care to admit...) I had not realized how *profoundly* different the meaning of the "=" in Python's spam = ham is from the "=" in its spam[3] = ham[3] So much for "explicit is better than implicit"... And it confirmed Paul Graham's often-made assertion that all of programming language design is still catching up to Lisp... kj -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
