> On Nov 15, 2019, at 11:11 AM, Python <python@python.invalid> wrote: > > Richard Damon wrote: > ... >> then elsewhere you could do >> foo(j) >> and after that j is 2 >> you also could do >> foo(1) >> and after that if you did >> j = 1 >> then now j might have the value 2 as the constant 1 was changed to the >> value 2 (this can cause great confusion) > > Wow! So fubar that such a feature should definitely makes its > way into PHP!
I remember fixing a bug caused by this. Bev in TX -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
