Gregory Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Sun Sep 24 18:39:54 EDT 2017

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Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> 	"Binding" itself tends to be Python specific terminology -- in that it
> is the parameter /name/ that gets bound/attached to the argument /object/.
> It is the same method as used in any Python "assignment" statement,

Which is why I think "call by assignment" would be
a much better term!

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Greg

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