On Nov 8, 10:59 pm, Joe Strout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Of course, I've softened my position somewhat, since being shown that > "call by sharing" is simply a term for call-by-value in the case where > the values are object references. That clearly does apply to Python > (as well as other OOP languages, where object references are > involved), and as long as we can explain it as just a restricted form > of call-by-value, I'm OK with that.
Humor me briefly. In 'x= [1, 2, 3]', do you think that the value of x is a memory address? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list