"Dave Parker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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On May 20, 7:05 pm, Collin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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For example, consider the two statements:
x = 8
x = 10
The reaction from most math teachers (and kids) was "one of those is
wrong because x can't equal 2 different things at the same time".
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Aw, come on. I'm a novice programmer but even after reading the most basic
of introductions to a programming language I can tell that x is being
assigned one value, then another.
It doesn't seem fair to take statements like the above out of the context of
a program and then ask teachers and students about it. This statement:
2 + 2 = 4
means something in the context of an elementary math class, but is clearly
not an assignment statement in Python. But I've never encountered anyone who
was confused by this distinction, as long as you know where this line
belongs.
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