Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Sun, 22 Feb 2009 13:37:27 -0300, andrew cooke wrote: > >> as far as i understand things, the best model is: >> >> 1 - everything is an object >> 2 - everything is passed by reference > > Except that is wrong. If it were true, you could do this: [pointer swapping]
i was thinking of how the stack is used; i would have called what you are talking about "pointer semantics". however, on reading around a little, it seems that i'm in a very small minority (which is a pity, because if you restrict the meaning to how values are handled on the stack then you get a lot closer to having just values and references, rather than the whole pile of different terms that are apparently in use). sorry for the confusion, andrew -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
