passing by refference

[Doug Quale]

aahz at pythoncraft.com (Aahz) writes:

> In article <874r3vhp2m.fsf at charter.net>,
> Doug Quale  <quale1 at charter.net> wrote:
> >
> >How do you explain assignment (binding) in Python?  The values there
> >are references too, right?
> 
> Actually, I don't use "value" at all when talking about Python when I
> can help it, because there's the confusion with "value of an object".
> -- 
> Aahz (aahz at pythoncraft.com)           <*>         http://www.pythoncraft.com/

Right, but I ask that that answer be stricken from the record as
non-responsive.  Python binding does need to be explained, even if you
don't like to use the word value.  How do you explain it?