[Python-3000] in-out parameters

[Terry Reedy]

"Rudy Rudolph" <rudyrudolph at excite.com> wrote in message 
news:20060430005356.3DA9B8B34E at xprdmxin.myway.com...
>
> One thing that has always bothered me about Python is the lack of in-out
> parameters. Python is such a wonderful object-oriented language, but it 
> lacks
> this feature that nearly every language has. Maybe we can fix this in 
> 3.0.

-1

a. Not needed because Python allows one to return multiple values (forming 
a tuple) instead of just one.
b. Not needed because Python already has them: any mutable arg.  Under the 
CPython covers, the current pass-by-name-binding amounts to pass by 
reference as some define it.

Terry Jan Reedy