Op 04-09-17 om 13:08 schreef Stefan Ram: > Antoon Pardon <antoon.par...@vub.be> writes: >> Op 04-09-17 om 12:22 schreef Stefan Ram: >>> Rustom Mody <rustompm...@gmail.com> writes: >>>>> Stefan Ram wrote: >>>>>> JavaScript and Python do not have references as values >>>>> Yes, they do. The difference is that they don't have any >>>> Its because reference (or pointer or ?) is central to python's semantics >>> If they are so central, then it should be easy to show >>> quotes from The Python Language Reference to support that >>> claim. >> The section about assignment talks about reference counts. > Yes, but this only matters for the garbage-collection > semantics, not for the main semantics of the assignment.
Yes it does, because it implies that an assignment works with references. If the assignment didn't work with references but would work by copying over the old value with the new value, you wouldn't have reference counts nor garbage collection. at this level. -- Antoon Pardon -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
