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Nested scopes, and augmented assignment

Antoon Pardon apardon at forel.vub.ac.be
Fri Jul 7 07:51:20 EDT 2006 
On 2006-07-07, Piet van Oostrum <piet at cs.uu.nl> wrote:
>>>>>> Antoon Pardon <apardon at forel.vub.ac.be> (AP) wrote:
>
>>AP> Could you maybe clarify what problem we are discussing? All I wrote
>>AP> was that with an assignment the search for the lefthand variable
>>AP> depends on whether the lefthand side is a simple variable or
>>AP> more complicated. 
>
> What do you mean with `the lefthand variable'? Especially when talking
> about `complicated lefthand sides'?

The name on the left side of an assignment that refers to a variable,
as opposed to names that are attributes.

>>AP> Sure people may prefer to speak about (re)binding
>>AP> vs mutating variables, but just because I didn't use the prefered terms,
>>AP> starting to doubt my understanding of the language, seems a bit
>>AP> premature IMO. I'm sure there are areas where my understanding of
>>AP> the language is shaky, metaclasses being one of them, but understanding
>>AP> how names are searched doesn't seem to be one of them.
>
> You didn't understand it in your OP. Maybe your understanding has gained in
> the meantime?

I don't rule out that I gained some understanding without noticing it.
Maybe my choice of words was poor then.

-- 
Antoon Pardon
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