On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 7:21 PM, Gregory Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote: > Hans Georg Schaathun wrote: > >> You cannot reference nor manipulate a reference in python, and that IMHO >> makes them more abstract. > > You can manipulate them just fine by moving them > from one place to another:
I think "manipulate" here means things like pointer arithmetic, which are perfectly normal and common in C and assembly, but not in languages where they're references. Chris Angelico -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
