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Re: Question about Pass-by-object-reference?

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On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 3:35 PM, Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> wrote:
> If you say "nothing is being passed", then my response would be "Oh, you
> aren't calling the function at all? Or just calling it with no arguments?"

The latter. Suppose you have a class method that takes optional args,
and you override it in a subclass. The subclass's method may choose to
swallow any args it was given, and "pass nothing" to the super()
method. I have code doing exactly this, and sometimes it's important
to comment it as such (although I'll usually word it as "pass on no
args" or something, rather than just "pass nothing"). But yes. If
there are any arguments, they are being passed.

ChrisA

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Question about Pass-by-object-reference? fl <rxjwg98@gmail.com> - 2014-07-22 12:04 -0700
  Re: Question about Pass-by-object-reference? Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com> - 2014-07-22 15:32 -0400
    Re: Question about Pass-by-object-reference? fl <rxjwg98@gmail.com> - 2014-07-22 12:54 -0700
  Re: Question about Pass-by-object-reference? fl <rxjwg98@gmail.com> - 2014-07-22 12:34 -0700
    Re: Question about Pass-by-object-reference? Peter Pearson <ppearson@nowhere.invalid> - 2014-07-22 20:35 +0000
      Re: Question about Pass-by-object-reference? emile <emile@fenx.com> - 2014-07-22 13:46 -0700
        Re: Question about Pass-by-object-reference? fl <rxjwg98@gmail.com> - 2014-07-22 15:17 -0700
          Re: Question about Pass-by-object-reference? Joel Goldstick <joel.goldstick@gmail.com> - 2014-07-22 18:26 -0400
          Re: Question about Pass-by-object-reference? emile <emile@fenx.com> - 2014-07-22 15:33 -0700
          Re: Question about Pass-by-object-reference? Jerry Hill <malaclypse2@gmail.com> - 2014-07-22 19:06 -0400
        Re: Question about Pass-by-object-reference? fl <rxjwg98@gmail.com> - 2014-07-22 15:31 -0700
          Re: Question about Pass-by-object-reference? emile <emile@fenx.com> - 2014-07-22 15:40 -0700
      Re: Question about Pass-by-object-reference? fl <rxjwg98@gmail.com> - 2014-07-22 16:00 -0700
        Re: Question about Pass-by-object-reference? emile <emile@fenx.com> - 2014-07-22 16:10 -0700
  Re: Question about Pass-by-object-reference? Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2014-07-22 20:27 -0400
    Re: Question about Pass-by-object-reference? fl <rxjwg98@gmail.com> - 2014-07-22 18:49 -0700
      Re: Question about Pass-by-object-reference? Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2014-07-23 11:59 +1000
        Re: Question about Pass-by-object-reference? Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2014-07-23 05:35 +0000
          Re: Question about Pass-by-object-reference? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-07-23 16:07 +1000
          Re: Question about Pass-by-object-reference? Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2014-07-23 16:25 +1000
          Re: Question about Pass-by-object-reference? Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2014-07-23 18:51 -0400
            Re: Question about Pass-by-object-reference? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-07-24 03:22 +0000
              Re: Question about Pass-by-object-reference? Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2014-07-24 05:05 +0000
    Re: Question about Pass-by-object-reference? Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2014-07-23 05:36 +0000
      Re: Question about Pass-by-object-reference? Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2014-07-23 18:32 -0400
    Re: Question about Pass-by-object-reference? alex23 <wuwei23@gmail.com> - 2014-07-25 15:20 +1000
  Re: Question about Pass-by-object-reference? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-07-23 01:56 +0000

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