import a modified module

[Mark Jackson]

David MacQuigg <dmq at gain.com> writes:
> On 26 Mar 2004 20:03:45 GMT, mjackson at alumni.caltech.edu (Mark
> Jackson) wrote:

> I don't understand why the term "references" is suboptimal.  A module
> M1 has a namespace, which is detailed in a dictionary M1.__dict__.
> This dictionary contains _references_ to objects in memory (not the
> objects themselves).  What terminology would be better?

Binding (of names to objects).  To quote Aahz,

> I'm saving up time for a longer response to Donn, but here's a short
> one: I'm not at all opposed to using "reference" and indeed I use it all
> the time.  I just think that using "binding" is preferable in most cases
> because it gets people out of the pointer mindset.

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