Op 08-06-16 om 19:29 schreef BartC: > I don't see why we should determine what a /proper/ reference >> can do, based on what it does in one specific language. > > Because there are some things that such references can do that Python > can't do with its object reference model, not without some difficulty > or having to write convoluted code.
So? Maybe you have the wrong idea of what a reference is/can do? A reference is an alias. What you can do with that depends of the work environment. That you can do different things in an evironment that has a copy assignment than in an environment where you don't doesn't make the aliases go away. -- Antoon Pardon -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
