On 19-02-18 16:18, Ned Batchelder wrote: > On 2/19/18 9:54 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: >> On Mon, 19 Feb 2018 13:28:26 +0000, Paul Moore wrote: >> >>> [1] The most basic question, which people making such claims often >>> can't >>> answer, is "Do you mean that values are strongly typed, or that names >>> are? Or did you mean that variables are, because if so Python doesn't >>> even have variables in the sense that you mean" Programming language >>> semantics are complex. >> An excellent point. >> >> The distinction between typing *values* and *names* is a good one. >> >> >> > > I guess I'll have to continue to grit my teeth as people say, "Python > doesn't have variables." Why can't we say, "Python's variables work > differently than other languages"? > > --Ned.
Which other languages. It seems python variables seem to work just like lisp, scheme and smalltalk. -- Antoon -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list