Steven D'Aprano wrote:
Consequently people who know these other languages come along and ask "So is Python call by value or call by reference?".
And if you don't know *exactly* what *they* understand by those terms, you can't answer that directly without running the risk of confusing them in some way. So instead, you just tell them how it works, and leave them to decide for themselves what name they want to give it. -- Greg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
