Re: Call-By-Object

2008-11-10 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Mon, 10 Nov 2008 13:30:08 -0800, Ethan Furman wrote: > Coming from assembly, C, Pascal, Fortran, BASIC, FoxPro, and possibly > others whose names I do not currently remember, I am well aware of what > c-b-v and c-b-r means and had never heard of c-b-o (alas, my degree is > in Business Administr

Call-By-Object

2008-11-10 Thread Ethan Furman
Many thanks to Stephen, Marc, Terry, and everyone else. Even thanks to those whose stubborn refusal to think at the appropriate layer extended the thread clear off my mail reader's screen. This is one area where my understanding was weak, and in fact have had to change code because I didn't u