UserLinux chooses Python as "interpretive language" of choice

[John Roth]

"Terry Reedy" <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote in message
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> John Roth" <newsgroups at jhrothjr.com> wrote in
> message
>
> > Technically, since names are simply keys in
> dictionaries,
>
> This is only true of attribute names, the third
> use of 'name'.

That's the sense I assumed Francis Avila was
using the term in, and I didn't particularly care
to be pedantic and discuss the different ways
the word 'name' can be used, espeially since
Lewis Carroll did such a fine job of it once.

Of course, I could be wrong about which
usage he intended.

John Roth

> Definition names start as code
> token names and become values of a __name__
> attribute, not a key.  Code token names otherwise
> become whatever the interpreter does with them,
> which might or might not be to make them a Python
> dictionary key.
>
> Terry J. Reedy
>
>