> > No, my hypothesis is that Python's assignment statement semantics are > the tricky part--once you understand them, the utter simplicity of > Python's argument passing semantics will be evident.
Indeed, I find the simple nature of it and the fact things tend not to change is extremely useful. It is an advantage to have rules to abide by that cannot be ignored or by-passed. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list