Marko Rauhamaa writes: > Jussi Piitulainen: > >> For me it's enough to know that it's the object itself that is passed >> around as an argument, as a returned value, as a stored value, as a >> value of a variable. This is the basic fact that lets me understand >> the behaviour and performance of programs. > > That "definition" is very circular. You haven't yet defined what is > "object itself". The word "self", in partucular, looks like yet > another synonym of "identity".
Yes, I regard the identity of an object as the most *basic* thing. > Anyway, it would be nice to have an explicit statement in the language > definition that says that passing an argument and returning a value > preserve the identity. Isn't there? I think it's at least very strongly implied. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
