Ben Finney <[email protected]> wrote: >Dave Farrance <[email protected]> writes: > >> Marko Rauhamaa <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >Dave Farrance <[email protected]>: >> > >> >> (Conversely, I see that unlike CPython, all PyPy's numbers have >> >> unchanging ids, even after exiting PyPy and restarting, so it seems >> >> that PyPy's numerical ids are "faked".) >> > >> >What's a faked id? >> >> You can figure out what I'm getting at -- i.e. I presume that the ids >> are not pointers to stored numbers in memory (as with CPython) but are >> a translation of the numerical variable's value. > >Why refer to that as “faked”? That's what I can't figure out about what >you're getting at. Perhaps Marko shares my uncomprehension.
Hence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scare_quotes -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
