Steven D'Aprano wrote: > But you still find a few people here and there who have been exposed to Java
foolishness, and will argue that Python is "pass by value, where the value is an implementation dependent reference to the thing that you thought was the value".
To quote Niklaus Wirth (the father of Pascal, Modula-2 etc.), "You may call me by name. But you may also call me by reference". -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
