ru...@yahoo.com wrote:
"the same as anyone else's" only if [Python's] "idea
of assignment" does not include producing the same
results.
a = array (1,2,3)
b = a
a[1] = 4
print b
C, C++, VBA, Fortran, Perl: 1, 2, 3
Python: 1, 4, 3
You are mistaken (except perhaps in the Fortran case, which is an
oddball by modern standards, and I don't know Perl well enough to judge).
C/C++ code:
int* a = malloc(3);
a[0] = 1;
a[1] = 2;
a[2] = 3;
int* b = a;
a[1] = 4;
print_array(b)
---> Result: 1, 4, 3
REALbasic code:
Dim a() As Integer = Array(1,2,3)
Dim b() As Integer = a
a(1) = 4
PrintArray b
--> Result: 1, 4, 3
VB.NET code would be very similar in syntax, and identical in behavior,
to the REALbasic code. Java would also have the same semantics, though
my Java is too rusty to get the syntax right without actually trying it.
If you can find a language where an array variable is NOT a reference
(and thus does not behave exactly as in Python, Java, REALbasic, C++,
etc.), then that language is either a dinosaur or some weird academic
oddity.
Best,
- Joe
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