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Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> writes: > On Saturday, September 12, 2015 at 11:26:18 PM UTC+5:30, Akira Li wrote: >> Rustom Mody writes: >> >> > On Saturday, September 12, 2015 at 8:11:49 PM UTC+5:30, Laura Creighton wrote: >> >> In a message of Sat, 12 Sep 2015 05:46:35 -0700, Rustom Mody writes: >> >> >How about lay-English ontology in which "point to" and "refer to" are fairly >> >> >synonymous? >> >> >> >> This I have found is important in teaching, which is why I favour 'bind' >> >> and 'binding' -- rather than pointer, pointer, refer to, referring. >> > >> > Well we can play humpty dumpty and make any word mean whatever we like. >> > However if you are a teacher you will recognize a need for pictures. >> > And (as far as I can tell) "Random832" finds a need for the box-n-arrow >> > diagrams of classic data-structure books >> >> Speaking of pictures and names in Python >> http://python.net/~goodger/projects/pycon/2007/idiomatic/handout.html#other-languages-have-variables > > Yeah cute > [I think I will even use these in my classes] > However they dont address the issue that I think random832 is > referring to. The pictures despite their simplicity reflect the actual model that Python language uses i.e., any deviations are an implementation artifact and may be ignored. > viz. I have two variables (or names!) say a and b which look the same >>>> a > [[1,2],[1,2]] >>>> b > [[1,2],[1,2]] > And yet doing >>>> a[0][0] = "Oops!" > gives a data structure one "Oops!" > whereas doing it to b mysteriously gives 2 Sorry, I haven't followed the whole thread. Could your provide a complete code example? Mention what you expect to happen and what happens instead in your case.
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Re: Terminology: "reference" versus "pointer" rurpy@yahoo.com - 2015-09-12 18:07 -0700
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Re: Terminology: "reference" versus "pointer" Akira Li <4kir4.1i@gmail.com> - 2015-09-14 22:30 +0300
Re: Terminology: "reference" versus "pointer" Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com> - 2015-09-14 13:16 -0700
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Re: Terminology: "reference" versus "pointer" Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-09-14 11:30 +1000
Re: Terminology: "reference" versus "pointer" Akira Li <4kir4.1i@gmail.com> - 2015-09-14 05:26 +0300
Re: Terminology: "reference" versus "pointer" Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-09-14 09:52 +1000
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Re: Terminology: "reference" versus "pointer" Akira Li <4kir4.1i@gmail.com> - 2015-09-14 17:48 +0300
Re: Terminology: "reference" versus "pointer" Random832 <random832@fastmail.com> - 2015-09-14 11:10 -0400
Re: Terminology: "reference" versus "pointer" Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2015-09-15 03:03 +1000
Re: Terminology: "reference" versus "pointer" Random832 <random832@fastmail.com> - 2015-09-14 13:34 -0400
Re: Terminology: "reference" versus "pointer" Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2015-09-16 00:26 +1000
Re: Terminology: "reference" versus "pointer" Emile van Sebille <emile@fenx.com> - 2015-09-14 10:51 -0700
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Re: Terminology: "reference" versus "pointer" Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2015-09-16 18:24 +1000
Re: Terminology: "reference" versus "pointer" Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-09-16 18:33 +1000
Re: Terminology: "reference" versus "pointer" Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-09-15 03:59 +1000
Re: Terminology: "reference" versus "pointer" Random832 <random832@fastmail.com> - 2015-09-14 14:02 -0400
Re: Terminology: "reference" versus "pointer" Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2015-09-16 00:14 +1000
Re: Terminology: "reference" versus "pointer" Akira Li <4kir4.1i@gmail.com> - 2015-09-14 20:45 +0300
Re: Terminology: "reference" versus "pointer" Random832 <random832@fastmail.com> - 2015-09-14 14:00 -0400
Re: Terminology: "reference" versus "pointer" Akira Li <4kir4.1i@gmail.com> - 2015-09-14 21:17 +0300
Re: Terminology: "reference" versus "pointer" Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2015-09-13 03:08 +1000
Re: Terminology: "reference" versus "pointer" Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2015-09-12 10:26 -0700
Re: Terminology: "reference" versus "pointer" Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2015-09-13 11:13 +1000
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