What other languages use the same data model as Python?
Gregory Ewing
greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Sat May 7 18:54:57 EDT 2011
Ben Finney wrote:
> No, I think not. The term “variable” usually comes with a strong
> expectation that every variable has exactly one name.
I would say that many variables don't have names *at all*,
unless you consider an expression such as a[i] to be
a "name". And if you *do* consider that to be a name,
then clearly one variable can have a great many names.
What would *you* call a[i]?
--
Greg
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