instance objects are attribute references. There are two kinds of valid
attribute names: data attributes and methods.
-*data attributes* correspond to "instance variables" in Smalltalk, and to "data
+*Data attributes* correspond to "instance variables" in Smalltalk, and to "data
members" in C++. Data attributes need not be declared; like local variables,
they spring into existence when they are first assigned to. For example, if
``x`` is the instance of :class:`!MyClass` created above, the following piece of