What other languages use the same data model as Python?

[Mel]

Steven D'Aprano wrote:

> It's not an awful model for Python: a name binding a = obj is equivalent
> to sticking a reference (a pointer?) in box a that points to obj.
> Certainly there are advantages to it.
> 
> But one problem is, the model is ambiguous with b = a. You've drawn
> little boxes a and b both pointing to the big box (which I deleted for
> brevity). But surely, if a = 1234 creates a reference from a to the big
> box 1234, then b = a should create a reference from b to the box a?

:) There's a way around that too.  Describe literals as "magic names" or 
"Platonic names" that are bound to objects in ideal space.  I actually 
considered that for a while as a way of explaining to newbs why the 
characters in a string literal could be different from the characters in the 
string value.  This would probably have troubles of its own; I never took it 
through the knock-down drag-out disarticulation that would show what the 
problems were.

	Mel.