Antoon Pardon <antoon.par...@vub.be>: > That wont happen as long as people continue to do damage with e.g. > claiming that the python assignment is not an alias operation. > > There is IMO no conceptual damage by regarding the call semantics > as call by reference.
I don't think the clear description of Python's semantics requires the
use of such terms ("alias", "call by XXX"). It would be enough to
specify what actually happens.
Marko
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