Finding the instance reference of an object

Bruno Desthuilliers bruno.42.desthuilliers at websiteburo.invalid
Fri Oct 31 05:00:56 EDT 2008


greg a écrit :
> Aaron Brady wrote:
> 
>> Maybe I missed this part.  What does the phrase, "value of variable x"
>> mean in Python?
> 
> I didn't use the phrase "value of variable x" anywhere in my
> definitions, so it doesn't matter what it means, or even
> whether it means anything at all.
 >
>> If "value of 'x'" is not defined, we should agree on a definition
>> that's really clear and useful, favoring useful.  After that's
>> established, we can proceed to evaluating what 'call by value' would
>> behave like, which would then determine if Python behaves like it.
> 
> There you go, getting distracted by that annoying word
> "value". Forget about it, we don't need it!
> 

Err... So what does "call by value" means if "values" doesn't mean 
anything ?-)



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