On Nov 7, 2012, at 11:51 PM, Andrew Robinson <andr...@r3dsolutions.com> wrote:
> On 11/07/2012 04:00 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: >> Andrew, it appears that your posts are being eaten or rejected by my >> ISP's news server, because they aren't showing up for me. Possibly a side- >> effect of your dates being in the distant past? > Date has been corrected since two days ago. It will remain until a reboot.... > Ignorance, though, might be bliss... > >> Every now and again I come across somebody who tries to distinguish between >> "call by foo" and "pass by foo", but nobody has been able to explain the >> difference (if any) to me. > I think the "Call by foo" came into vogue around the time of C++; Eg: It's in > books like C++ for C programmers; I never saw it used before then so I > *really* don't know for sure… > Just as an aside - there is a famous quote from Niklaus Wirt, who, when asked how he pronounced his name, is said to have replied: "Well you can call me by name, Veert, or you can call me by value, Worth." That would have been sometime in the early 60s, when he was at Stanford. -Bill -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
