On Fri, 21 Nov 2008 03:32:25 +0000, Steven D'Aprano wrote: >> Rather it seems to me that the essence of the idea they had in mind is >> that call-by-value is equivalent to assignment. > > You've just *assumed* that assignment in Algol 60 doesn't involving > copying. Based on the very little I know about Algol, I think that is a > very unsafe assumption. I know significantly more about Pascal, and in > Pascal, assignment *is* copying. > > (I wait now with bated breath for somebody to point out some Python > implementation or feature where assignment doesn't make a copy...)
Ah crap, I meant *Pascal*. Python of course doesn't copy objects when you assign them. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
