On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 21:07:08 +0100, 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"?
Python's calling convention already has an well-established name, established over thirty years ago by the distinguished computer scientist Barbara Liskov, namely call-by-sharing. It's also known as "call-by- object-reference". It doesn't need yet another name. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
