kirby urner wrote:
We say reference a lot when talking about a variable's relationship
to a piece of memory. I'm thinking handle could be used more
(optionally -- this is not an instruction) and we could even show a
coffee cup (doesn't have to be coffee -- a mug) with two handles, when
I'm catching up here, and just read the namespaces thing --
How about namespaces are like card catalogs in a closed stack library.
At the Library of Congress (here in the U.S.), up through when I last
went (some time ago), any U.S. citizen can go in and find a book in a
catalog (I'm certain
(Fully aware of the potential problems of quoting out of context and
of the limitation of using analogies...)
On 10/2/06, Scott David Daniels [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm catching up here, and just read the namespaces thing --
How about namespaces are like card catalogs in a closed stack
Am 03.10.2006 um 00:47 schrieb kirby urner:
This metaphor may be good for references, but not for Python. You
are
left with the intuition that you can look at the mug and enumerate
the
handles. Maybe a an object is a living thing with lasers shining
on it
(referring to it), that
