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[QUOTE="Dennis Lee Bieber, post: 3405936"]
At least give me credit for putting "variable" in quotes -- to imply
that it isn't the classical "mailbox" variable (fixed address containing
some data)

As far as I'm concerned, there is a pool of objects, and a pool of
names with strings of twine [vs characters <G>] (the references) to
objects. For names, there are, in my mind, unqualified names, and
qualified names. A qualified name is one that "goes inside" an object
and allows changing the inside when it appears on the left of an = (or
in absence of an =); unqualified names on the left of an = move the
name/twine from whatever object to which it had been connected over to
some other object.

a = b	#unqualified, "a" is disconnected from whatever, and
			#connects it to "b"
	a[1] = b	#qualified, goes inside "a" to move the connection 
			#the second element from whatever to "b"
	a.it = b	#qualified, goes inside of "a" to move the connection
			#of the "it" component from whatever to "b"
	a.that(b)	#goes inside of "a" using some method which might
			#connect something to "b"
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