On 2011-05-05, harrismh777 <harrismh...@charter.net> wrote: > Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: >>> > We do not consider passing a pointer as*by value* because its an >>> > address; by definition, that is pass-by-reference. We are not passing >> To most of the world, pass-by-reference means the COMPILER, not the >> PROGRAMMER is obtaining and passing the address, and the compiler also >> always dereferences the passed "value"... The programmer has no control >> over whether to operate on the address or the data referenced by the >> address. > > Who is "most of the world" ?
Pretty much everybody except you. Please see: > http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/comphelp/v8v101/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.ibm.xlcpp8a.doc%2Flanguage%2Fref%2Fcplr233.htm Yea, I read that. It doesn't support your argument. It agrees with the rest of the world. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! I need to discuss at BUY-BACK PROVISIONS gmail.com with at least six studio SLEAZEBALLS!! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
