Re: Passing arguments to function - (The fundamentals are confusingme)

2005-08-09 Thread Terry Reedy
"Gregory PiƱero" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Ahh, so it's a mutable thing. That makes sense that I can't change a >mutable object and thus can't affect it outside of the function. You of course meant immutable, but this is still confused. It is a name-binding

Re: Passing arguments to function - (The fundamentals are confusingme)

2005-08-09 Thread Terry Reedy
"Christopher Subich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: >> In a more simplistic view, I'd reverse the phrasing... The name >> "x" is assigned to the object "y" (implying it is no longer attached to >> whatever used to have the name) I agree tha