On 8/23/2012 10:43 AM, Jerry Hill wrote:
Personally, when I was learning python I found the idea of python having names and values (rather than variables and references) to clear up a lot of my misconceptions of the python object model. I think it's done the same for other people too, especially those who come from the C world, where a variable is a named and typed location in memory.
There are two important points about C and assembler. First, the named locations (and un-named internal locations like function return addresses) are *contiguous*. Giving a user access to one block may give a user access to other blocks if one is not careful. The other is that the typing is in the code and compiler, but not in the runtime memory. So text input can be read as code and a return jump address to the bytes interpreted as code.
-- Terry Jan Reedy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
