Jeff Shannon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Because Python uses a fundamentally different concept for variable > names than C/C++/Java (and most other static languages). In those > languages, variables can be passed by value or by reference; neither > term really applies in Python. (Or, if you prefer, Python always
Java's model is quite similar to Python's, except that Java makes some exception for very low-level types such as int or float. But there is no "passing by reference" in Java, anyway: the semantics of assignment and argument passing (same thing) are VERY close in Java and Python. I hope this is enough to show that static or dynamic is quite a different issue -- Java's more or less statically typed, Python dynamically, but their model of variables is VERY similar anyway. Alex -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
