What other languages use the same data model as Python?
harrismh777
harrismh777 at charter.net
Thu May 5 01:19:36 EDT 2011
Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
>> > We do not consider passing a pointer as*by value* because its an
>> > address; by definition, that is pass-by-reference. We are not passing
> To most of the world, pass-by-reference means the COMPILER, not the
> PROGRAMMER is obtaining and passing the address, and the compiler also
> always dereferences the passed "value"... The programmer has no control
> over whether to operate on the address or the data referenced by the
> address.
Who is "most of the world" ? Please see:
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/comphelp/v8v101/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.ibm.xlcpp8a.doc%2Flanguage%2Fref%2Fcplr233.htm
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