On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 7:41 PM, Marko Rauhamaa <ma...@pacujo.net> wrote: > Antoon Pardon <antoon.par...@vub.be>: > >> the semantics of an assignment depends on the language > > I've only seen one kind of assignment in the general-purpose programming > languages I know, maybe with the exception of Prolog and Rust. > > So the assignment is the same everywhere, only the evaluation model > varies. In classic C, expressions evaluate to integers, double-precision > floating-point numbers or pointers. In Python, all expressions evaluate > pointers.
And that's an assertion that isn't backed by anything in the Python specification. Where do you get that all Python expressions are pointers? That's a construct invented specifically to shoe-horn Python into "hey look it's pass by value". It's not the fundamental of the language. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
