scope of function parameters (take two)

Daniel Kluev dan.kluev at gmail.com
Mon May 30 21:48:10 EDT 2011


On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 12:30 PM, Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:
> Again, go back and reread what I and other wrote. I believe that you are, in
> part, hypnotized by the work 'variable'. Can you define the word? There are
> 10 to 20 possible variations, and yours is probably wrong for Python.

On a sidenote, I wonder what is the reason to keep word 'variable' in
python documentation at all. I believe word 'name' represents concept
better, and those, who come from other languages, would be less likely
to associate wrong definitions with it.

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With best regards,
Daniel Kluev



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