On Oct 31, 9:12 am, Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED] cybersource.com.au> wrote: [...] > There's enough difficulty with learning a new programming language > without people adding to it by misusing terms like "call by value" to > describe what Python does.
Maybe it could be named 'call by assignment'? Then the focus might shift towards misconceptions about assignment and augmented assignment, which are more often than not at the root of people's misunderstandings. -- Arnaud -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
