operator overloading + - / * = etc...

[Theerasak Photha]

On 9 Oct 2006 11:27:40 GMT, Antoon Pardon <apardon at forel.vub.ac.be> wrote:

> I honestly don't see why "variable" would be an inappropiate word to use.
> AFAIU, python assignment seems to behave much like lisp and smalltalk
> and I never heard that those communities found the word "variable"
> inappropiate to use. And since the word variable originally comes
> from mathematics and IMHO the mathematical semantics are closer
> to the lisp/smalltalk/python semantics than the C/algol/pascal/ada
> semantics I don't see why "variable" is seen as "sloppy talk"

Um, that's what I usually use anyway... :)

-- Theerasak