On Sat, 07 Jan 2006 01:29:46 -0500 Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From what I can tell, Liskov proposed *three* different > names for > passing references to objects: call-by-sharing, > call-by-object, and call-by-object-reference.
"Call by object reference" makes the most sense to me. Names in Python are object references: they refer to objects. You might almost say "call by name" but that sort of implies that you are passing the strings around (which is generally untrue), and it doesn't convey what happens when the name is something complex like "ham['spam'][0].eggs()[42]" (i.e. "name" carries the conotation of being a simple string, although you could argue that it doesn't have to mean that). -- Terry Hancock ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Anansi Spaceworks http://www.AnansiSpaceworks.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
