Joe Strout wrote:
On Nov 8, 2008, at 2:38 PM, Terry Reedy wrote:
So if you then insist that Python uses "call by object",
you're actually saying it uses call by value!
Both Joe and you seem to be engaging in the following bit of sophistry:
"In order for code A to call code B, some information must be
communicated from A to B." Something we all know ...
"That information is a value of some sort." True...
"Therefore all calling is calling by value."
Hey now, hang on. That doesn't characterize my argument at all. My
argument is much simpler:
You can hardly get simpler than what I wrote.
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