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Re: What other languages use the same data model as Python?

From	Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Subject	Re: What other languages use the same data model as Python?
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Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> writes:

> Ben Finney wrote:
>
> > No, I think not. The term “variable” usually comes with a strong
> > expectation that every variable has exactly one name.
>
> I would say that many variables don't have names *at all*, unless you
> consider an expression such as a[i] to be a "name".

Again, our disagreement is not over the behaviour of Python, but over
what an average newcomer to Python can be expected to understand by the
term “variable” from its usage elsewhere in programming.

> What would *you* call a[i]?

What *I* would call that isn't relevant to the point. I do think it's
even more misleading to call that “a variable”, though, since it's not
what the Python docs call a variable and it's not what an average
newcomer would call a variable.

It's a reference. So is ‘a’, so is ‘i’; names are a special kind of
reference. In Python, references are how we get at objects within our
code, and names are one kind of reference.

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