On 2011-05-10, Gregory Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
> 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?
Because it's easier to communicate if everybody agrees on what a word
means.
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