Le Fri, 12 Feb 2010 23:12:06 +0100, Alf P. Steinbach a écrit : > > Steven talks about the standard meaning of "pass by reference".
See my answer to Steve's message. You can't postulate a "standard meaning" of "pass by reference" independently of the specificities of each language. For example a "variable" in Python means something different than in non-object languages; it is impossible to have an agnostic definition. In Python and other true object languages, the operations on references (especially assignment) don't have the same semantics as in more archaic languages. This is no reason, IMO, to refuse using the term "pass by reference". The state of art in computing languages evolves, and it wouldn't be constructive to remain stuck with definitions from the 1960s. Regards Antoine. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
