Marko Rauhamaa <ma...@pacujo.net> writes: > Antoon Pardon <antoon.par...@rece.vub.ac.be>: > >> You can do something like that in simula, but only because >> simula has two kinds of assignments. One kind that is >> simular to python and one that is similar to C. >> The one that is similar that python is the reference assignment. > > I see Python as doing the exact same thing with variables as C.
I'm not sure that's a good mental model of what's going on. A variable declaration in C carries semantics of memory allocation to hold the value. This isn't so in python > > What is different is that in Python, every expression evaluates to a > pointer. Thus, you can only assign pointers to variables. > I don't think that's really right - every expression evaluates to an object. Whether or not that object can be accessed through some variable or not depends on how the expression is used. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
