Steven D'Aprano wrote: > But in programming, things do work that way. If my class Book contains a > reference to Smith's classic work, I can modify it. (Unless the language > deliberately restricts my ability to modify certain objects, as Python > does with immutable objects.) > > That's what programmers expect when you talk about references, especially > if they come from a C (or Pascal) background. In Python, sometimes that's > true, and sometimes it is not, and the only way to tell is by looking at > the object itself, not by thinking about Python's high-level behaviour.
I believe one can restrict modification to pointer/reference parameter passing to C function, so C programmer shouldn't have problem knowing that reference doesn't not necessary mean you can modify it. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
