On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 5:24 AM, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 2017-09-26, alister via Python-list <python-list@python.org> wrote: >> On Tue, 26 Sep 2017 14:16:47 +0000, Grant Edwards wrote: >> >>> On 2017-09-26, Ned Batchelder <n...@nedbatchelder.com> wrote: >>>> On 9/25/17 10:20 PM, Steve D'Aprano wrote: >>>>> On Tue, 26 Sep 2017 02:54 am, Ned Batchelder wrote: >>>>> [...] >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> We've been asked nicely by the list mod to stop :) >>> >>> Perhaps we could agree on a subject line tag to be used in all threas >>> arguing about what to call the Python argument passing scheme? That way >>> the other 99% of us could pre-emptively plonk it? >> >> so you are suggesting a system where we could reject by reference :-) > > That depends on what you mean by "reference". > > And what you mean by "mean".
Well, *obviously*, reference is the section of the library that you're not allowed to borrow, and "mean" is the average of a set of numbers. Which means that CPython is breaking the rules every time it returns a "borrowed reference". ChrisA joke-taker-too-far -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
