On Jan 17, 1:59 am, Christian Heimes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > George Sakkis wrote: > > Posting a counter-example where the difference is clearly shown would > > be more vastly useful than referring to a list of long obscure usenet > > posts with practically no examples. C/C++ are not even mentioned in > > that page. I am not claiming you are wrong, I just don't find > > particularly this page particularly enlightening. > > I don't find a posting like "It's call-by-reference, but in fact it's > doesn't behave like call-by-reference" helpful.
You must be referring to other poster then; I did not mention at all the term "call by reference" (or "term by value" for that matter) exactly because they mean different things to different people. I only stated that Python's parameter passing is like passing a pointer in C/C ++ and gave a specific example of what I mean by "like passing a pointer", without labeling it as "call-by-X". > The text explains > Python's calling convention on a CS level. Please trust me that the > explanation on the site is right. It was written by somebody who > designed and wrote parts of Python. I didn't dispute the validity of the explanation, only its educational usefulness (both with respect to my posting and in general for someone new to Python). George -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
