[Edu-sig] Reference Count

[kirby urner]

On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 6:19 PM, Michael H. Goldwasser <goldwamh at slu.edu> wrote:

> We've gotten quite off track of the original thread,

Just a little, as passing by assignment ( = ) and/or calling a
callable, affect an object's reference count, and that adds to the
copy by value idea (if nothing were being copied, we wouldn't need to
increment any counter -- what's being copied is of course a reference
to an object).

Thanks for your quick and informative reply.

Kirby