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Subject: Re: Variables vs names [was: Objects in Python]
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On Thu, 23 Aug 2012 14:22:08 -0500, Evan Driscoll <driscoll@cs.wisc.edu>
declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general:

> 
> Incidentally, I also realized another reason I don't like the 'names'
> description. Take 'foo.bar'. (That is, the 'bar' attribute in object
> 'foo'.) Is 'foo.bar' a name? I'm not sure what the 'names' proponents
> would say, but to me both answers are problematic. I *really* dislike a
> 'no' answer because to me, 'foo.bar' absolutely *is* a name for the
> corresponding object. (This terminology has precedent.) But a 'yes'
> answer, if you also reject 'variable', means you no longer have an
> agreed-upon term for the names that are defined in the current scope --
> and such a term is a really good thing to have! (<cheeky>I know, let's
> call them variables. :-)</cheeky>)
>

	Let me complicate that... <G>

	It is a fully qualified name when one wishes to work with the
entirety of the object the name is bound to... It is a partially
qualified name with respect to any sub-components of that object.
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