Official definition of call-by-value (Re: Finding the instance reference...)

[greg]

Fredrik Lundh wrote:

> It's not only misleading, it's also a seriously flawed reading of the 
> original text - the Algol 60 report explicitly talks about assignment of 
> *values*.

Do you agree that an expression in Python has a value?

Do you agree that it makes sense to talk about assigning
that value to something?

If so, what is there to stop us from applying the Algol
definition to Python?

-- 
Greg