What other languages use the same data model as Python?

Grant Edwards invalid at invalid.invalid
Thu May 5 10:25:58 EDT 2011


On 2011-05-05, harrismh777 <harrismh777 at charter.net> wrote:
> 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" ?

Pretty much everybody except you.


Please see:

> http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/comphelp/v8v101/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.ibm.xlcpp8a.doc%2Flanguage%2Fref%2Fcplr233.htm

Yea, I read that.  It doesn't support your argument.  It agrees with
the rest of the world.

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