Steven D'Aprano wrote:
It's just that the term "variable" is so useful and so familiar that it's
easy to use it even for languages that don't have variables in the C/
Pascal/Fortran/etc sense.
Who says it has to have the Pascal/Fortran/etc sense? Why
should static languages have a monopoly on the use of the
term? That seems like a rather languagist attitude!
And BTW, applying it to Python is not inconsistent with its
usage in Pascal. In the technical vocabulary of Pascal,
a "variable" is anything that can appear on the left hand
side of an assignment. The analogous term in C is "lvalue".
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Greg
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