Please help with MemoryError
Mel
mwilson at the-wire.com
Fri Feb 12 15:22:08 EST 2010
mk wrote:
> John Posner wrote:
>
>>> http://effbot.org/zone/call-by-object.htm
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evaluation_strategy
>
>> [1] http://mail.python.org/pipermail/edu-sig/2008-May/008583.html
>
> Hmm how about "call by label-value"?
Nothing egregiously wrong with it.. maybe it's a bit wordy. It may be an
uphill fight getting it accepted into computer science the way Call by
value, Call by reference, Call by sharing, and Call by copy-restore have
been (<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evaluation_strategy>).
Mel.
>
> That is, you change labels by assignment, but pass the value of the
> label to a function. Since label value is passed, original label is not
> changed (i.e. it's not call by reference).
>
> However, an object referenced by label value can be changed in Python,
> like in classic example of list label passed to a function and then this
> list being modified in a function.
>
> Regards,
> mk
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