On Sun, 30 Sep 2007 10:47:13 -0000, Summercool <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said :
>and now n will be 3. I think C++ and PHP can let you do that, using >their reference (alias) mechanism. And C, Python, and Ruby probably >won't let you do that. What about Java and Perl? Seem to me you could in FORTRAN and Pascal, and maybe even Algol. It has been a while. I have come to appreciate Java's strong isolation convention. It makes it a lot easier to track down WHERE in the code a value could potentially change and keeps those places to a minimum. -- Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products The Java Glossary http://mindprod.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
