On Mon, 25 Sep 2017 08:05 pm, Antoon Pardon wrote: > Pass by reference doesn't imply being able to > write a swap function.
Really. Do you have a counter-example? > A swap function as possible in pascal requires two conditions. > > 1) Pass by reference > 2) Copy-over assignment. I don't know what you think "copy-over assignment" means, but none of DuckDuckGo, Google, Bing or Yahoo finds that term except in your post. -- Steve “Cheer up,” they said, “things could be worse.” So I cheered up, and sure enough, things got worse. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list