[Python-3000] in-out parameters

[Guido van Rossum]

On 4/29/06, Rudy Rudolph <rudyrudolph at excite.com> wrote:
> 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.

When I first saw this I thought "you must be joking". What's OO about
in-out parameters? I believe the feature was invented for Fortran.
(Does Java have them? I can't recall ever using them there.)

For the record, a strong -1 on this. You all are wasting your time.

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