passing by refference

Fredrik Lundh fredrik at pythonware.com
Tue May 13 17:36:12 EDT 2003


Doug Quale wrote:

> Call-by-value and call-by-reference don't have multiple meanings.
> They are precisely defined terms in Computer Science.

for some reason, CS folks tend to forget that most people live outside
the CS lab, in a world where words like "call", "value", and "reference"
have other, less precise meanings...

and the original question had nothing to do with any of this, of course.

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