On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 3:35 PM, harrismh777 <harrismh...@charter.net> wrote: > Grant Edwards wrote: >>> >>> We do not consider passing a pointer as*by value* because its an >>> > address; by definition, that is pass-by-reference. >> >> No, it isn't. It's pass by value. The fact that you are passing a >> value that is a pointer to another value is not relevent. >> > > @ Edwards, &Schaathun > > You are most definitely mistaken. See: > > http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/comphelp/v8v101/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.ibm.xlcpp8a.doc%2Flanguage%2Fref%2Fcplr233.htm
That source actually supports the claim that pass-by-pointer falls under pass-by-value. It reads, in part (emphasis added): > In C++, the reference parameters are initialized with the actual arguments > when the function is called. In C, the pointer parameters > are initialized > with pointer _values_ when the function is called. However, I hope we can all agree that pass-by-pointer shares certain features with both pass-by-value and pass-by-reference, and there are perfectly reasonable arguments for lumping it in either category, yes? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
