Kent Johnson wrote:
> I think to write correct programs in any language, you must have a
> correct mental model of what the program is doing, where by 'correct' I
> mean a model that is consistent with the actual behaviour of the program.
Here is a sketch of what the different parts of a model f
jim stockford wrote:
>
> as I understand things...
>
> there's a writeup somewhere that uses the term "bind" instead
> of "assign" for the operation
> a = b
Yes, that is how I prefer to talk about it - the effect of an assignment
statement is to bind a name to a value.
>
> for example, in Pyth
as I understand things...
there's a writeup somewhere that uses the term "bind" instead
of "assign" for the operation
a = b
for example, in Python
a = 1
the value 1 now has a name of a associated with it.
b = a
the value 1 now has two names, a and b, associated with it
the value 1 exists as an o
At 07:38 AM 7/17/2007, Kent Johnson wrote:
>Dick Moores wrote:
>>At 04:57 AM 7/17/2007, you wrote:
>>>A recent comp.lang.python thread has a good explanation of Python's
>>>assignment semantics:
>>>http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/56e7d62bf66a435c/
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
Dick Moores wrote:
> At 04:57 AM 7/17/2007, you wrote:
>> A recent comp.lang.python thread has a good explanation of Python's
>> assignment semantics:
>> http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/56e7d62bf66a435c/
>>
>
>
> Kent,
>
> Yes, interesting. But could you ex
At 04:57 AM 7/17/2007, you wrote:
A recent comp.lang.python thread
has a good explanation of Python's
assignment semantics:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/56e7d62bf66a435c/
Kent,
Yes, interesting. But could you explain what you mean by "assignment
semantic
A recent comp.lang.python thread has a good explanation of Python's
assignment semantics:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/56e7d62bf66a435c/
Kent
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