mk wrote: > John Posner wrote: > >>> http://effbot.org/zone/call-by-object.htm >>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evaluation_strategy > >> [1] http://mail.python.org/pipermail/edu-sig/2008-May/008583.html > > Hmm how about "call by label-value"?
Nothing egregiously wrong with it.. maybe it's a bit wordy. It may be an uphill fight getting it accepted into computer science the way Call by value, Call by reference, Call by sharing, and Call by copy-restore have been (<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evaluation_strategy>). Mel. > > That is, you change labels by assignment, but pass the value of the > label to a function. Since label value is passed, original label is not > changed (i.e. it's not call by reference). > > However, an object referenced by label value can be changed in Python, > like in classic example of list label passed to a function and then this > list being modified in a function. > > Regards, > mk -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
