[Tutor] scope question

Norvell Spearman norvell@houseofspearman.org
Wed Jan 15 18:35:03 2003


On Wednesday, 2003.01.15, 15:42:27 -0700, Poor Yorick wrote:
> By the way, I finally got a good understanding of this by experimenting 
> with passing mutable vs immutable objects into different test functions. 
> You have to be careful when passing a mutable object like a list into a 
> function because if you can change an element within the list the change 
> will be visible to any variables referencing that list object, inside or 
> outside of your function.

The tutorial I'm using is pretty good about stating each data type's
mutability or immutability; I probably need to go back and memorize
them.  Thanks.

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Norvell Spearman