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Date: Sat, 7 May 2011 19:28:50 +1000
Subject: Re: What other languages use the same data model as Python?
From: Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
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On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 7:21 PM, Gregory Ewing
<greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
> Hans Georg Schaathun wrote:
>
>> You cannot reference nor manipulate a reference in python, and that IMHO
>> makes them more abstract.
>
> You can manipulate them just fine by moving them
> from one place to another:

I think "manipulate" here means things like pointer arithmetic, which
are perfectly normal and common in C and assembly, but not in
languages where they're references.

Chris Angelico