[Tutor] beginning to code
Marko Rauhamaa
marko at pacujo.net
Fri Sep 22 08:40:43 EDT 2017
ram at zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram):
> Marko Rauhamaa <marko at pacujo.net> writes:
>>ram at zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram):
>>>Marko Rauhamaa <marko at pacujo.net> writes:
>>>>swap(slot_ref(locals(), "x"), slot_ref(locals(), "y"))
>>>You need to be able to write the call as
>>>swap( x, y )
>>Why?
>
> You responded to Bart:
>
> | swap(x,y)
> | print (x,y) # "Z" and "10"
> |
> |If not, then it doesn't have reference passing as
> |it is normally understood.
>
> , and Bart required this form. Moreover, if you allow other
> forms, such as
>
> swap( &x, &y )
>
> , then even C, would have "call by reference",
> but it has not.
There's two things: syntax and semantics.
Obviously, Bart's syntax couldn't work syntactically unless Python added
the syntactic facilities. But the bigger question is a semantic one: is
it possible regardless of syntactic considerations.
As Chris pointed out, Python has explicitly ruled it out with the
immutability caveat to locals().
Marko
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