On Nov 3, 2008, at 5:27 PM, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch wrote:
Maybe this is a surprise for you, because we haven't discussed this in much detail in this group lately, but it applies to Python which does call-by-object or call-by-sharing. ;-)
There's no such thing. Those are just terms made up by the Python community to in place of the more standard "call-by-value" terminology to make Python seem more mysterious than it really is. I guess you can call it "purple bananas" if you want, but the behavior is exactly the same as what every other language calls call-by-value.
But I really am trying not to continue this debate. So that's my last reply about it for tonight, I promise. :)
Cheers, - Joe <http://www.strout.net/info/coding/valref/> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
