;o) Agreed. Enough said ...
Cheers
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
> Behalf Of Guido van Rossum
> Sent: Saturday, May 06, 2006 8:32 AM
> To: Krishna Sankar
> Cc: python-3000@python.org
> Subject: Re: [Python-3000] in-out
> > d) One clear advantage is that this will minimize side effects and
> > surprises/programming, eventually adding reliabliltiy to
> the systems
> > developed using py.
>
> That seems to imply that programming with Python has more
> surprises and/or less reliability than other languages; a
>
I am tempted ;o) I used to diffenentiate between in and inout years ago in my
Pascal and Ada days ... Eventhough this offer comes on a Thursday.
A few random observations:
a) From what I gather, for some years, the pass by value and pass by
reference has been dormant
Ada has the in
