On 9/5/17 1:28 PM, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Wed, Sep 6, 2017 at 3:15 AM, Ned Batchelder <n...@nedbatchelder.com> wrote: >> On 9/5/17 1:02 PM, Steve D'Aprano wrote: >>> On Tue, 5 Sep 2017 11:37 pm, Gregory Ewing wrote: >>> >>>> Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: >>>>> Pascal, probably Modula-2, Visual BASIC are closer to the C++ reference >>>>> semantics, in that the definition of a function declares how the >>>>> argument(s) are passed. >>>> Well, sort of. In Pascal and Modula, and also VB I think, >>>> parameters are the only things that can be declared as having >>>> reference semantics, whereas references in C++ are first-class >>>> things that can be stored in any variable. >>> No, they aren't first-class. >> Did you mis-read Gregory's claim? He said, "references *in C++* are >> first-class things". You seem to be talking below about Python things. >> > And everything Steve said was about C++ references, which are a form > of alias. Not a 'thing'.
I see, I misunderstood. Sorry for the distraction. > > ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
