Mark Lawrence <breamore...@yahoo.co.uk> writes: > On 12/09/2015 01:11, random...@fastmail.us wrote: > If everything in Python is an object, how can it assign a pointer? > Especially how do Jython and IronPython assign pointers?
The Java and .NET runtimes also have pointers, they just don't [usually] call them pointers, just like Python doesn't call them pointers (a match made in... well, somewhere starting with an H, for sure). Honestly, whether you want to call the thing a pointer or a reference, you have to call it *something*, and I think "reference" is a worse fit based on its connotations from C++. Whatever you call it, it's an arrow on a diagram. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
