On Saturday, September 12, 2015 at 10:23:24 PM UTC-4, Mark Lawrence wrote: > On 13/09/2015 01:44, rurpy--- via Python-list wrote: > > On 09/12/2015 06:02 PM, Ned Batchelder wrote: > >> On Saturday, September 12, 2015 at 7:15:18 PM UTC-4, Mark Lawrence wrote: > >> [...] > >> But in C, pointers mean more than that. You can perform arithmetic on > >> them, to access memory as a linearly addressed abstraction. Python has > >> nothing like this. > >> > >> In C, a pointer can refer to another variable. Again, Python has > >> nothing like this. Python names refer to values, but they cannot > >> refer to other names. > >> > >> These last two reasons are why people say that Python does not have > >> pointers. > >> > >> As a language concept, Python has no pointers, because you cannot have > >> names referring to names, and because you cannot perform arithmetic on > >> references. The references from names to values are not things that can > >> be manipulated themselves. > > > > The reason python doesn't have pointers is that the majority of developers > > and documenters chose not to use the term. > > Nonsense. > > > You appear to have the same level of knowledge of Python internals as > the RUE has of the Python 3.3+ FSR unicode implementation. Let's have > some fun, is Python pass by value or pass by reference? It has to be > more interesting debating that than the drivel that's gone before in > this thread.
Mark, I'm sure you can be more respectful than this. And let's please not start down the "PBV or PBR" road... :( --Ned. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
