Mark Lawrence <breamore...@yahoo.co.uk>: > On 22/02/2014 02:47, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: >> BASIC, C, FORTRAN, COBOL, Assembly... A "variable" is synonym >> for an address [a box that holds things]. > > In C. > > int xyz = 1; > > xyz is placed in a register. What is xyz called now as it's not in > memory?
It's still a box, just like in Python. The difference is that while in C, the box looks like this: <URL: http://www.daikudojo.org/Archive/daikusan/bob.le/20090314_dovetail_box/pics/DSC_0767.JPG> in Python, it looks like this: <URL: http://www.dejavubuffet.fi/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/korurasia31.jpg> Marko -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
