On 2008-11-12, greg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Steven D'Aprano wrote: > >> Why should anyone take the "Revised Report on the Algorithmic Language >> Algol 60" as the "official" (only?) definition of call-by-value for all >> languages everywhere? > > Since the term was more or less invented by the people > who designed Algol, I thought it would be a good idea to > find out, from as close to the source as possible, what > *they* intended it to mean.
But you didn't try to find out their intention. You just took their words and applied it in a different context. It isn't at all obvious that placing their words in a context with different assignment semantics would preserve their intend. -- Antoon Pardon -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
