Assignment versus binding

[Marko Rauhamaa]

Rustom Mody <rustompmody at gmail.com>:
> You are scorning something basic: Dont like 'binding'?
> Ok what about stack-frames? Activation-records?
>
> Just had a conversation with a colleague yesterday in which he was
> complaining about how hard students find to learn this stuff because
> of confusions like hardware-stack and language-stack getting mixed up.
>
> If you dont like abstractions you will have too many details
> And likely confused terminology

Well, I *did* introduce a data model for Python where the abstract
concepts are puppies, pegs and leashes. Instead of "binding", you'd hang
a leash on a labeled peg. Of course, you could also ask a puppy to hold
on to one or more leashes.


Marko