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| From | Random832 <random832@fastmail.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.python |
| Subject | Re: Drowning in a teacup? |
| Date | 2016-04-02 15:54 -0400 |
| Message-ID | <mailman.373.1459626877.28225.python-list@python.org> (permalink) |
| References | <ndmlj2$pb0$1@gioia.aioe.org> <a2445859-f1ff-42cf-88ca-4004517b6624@googlegroups.com> |
On Sat, Apr 2, 2016, at 15:28, Ned Batchelder wrote: > On Friday, April 1, 2016 at 4:27:30 PM UTC-4, Fillmore wrote: > > notorious pass by reference vs pass by value biting me in the backside > > here. Proceeding in order. > > As others have pointed out, this is false dichotomy. There are other > possibilities than pass by reference and pass by value. Python (and > many other languages) use something called pass by object or pass by > sharing. I think that this arises from a confusion as to what a "value" is in "pass by value". The point of it being pass by value is that there is no statement you can execute in the function that has the effect of an assignment of the expression that was passed in from the caller. This holds no matter what kind of object is passed in or what mutable properties it has or does not have.
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Drowning in a teacup? Fillmore <fillmore_remove@hotmail.com> - 2016-04-01 16:27 -0400
Re: Drowning in a teacup? Rob Gaddi <rgaddi@highlandtechnology.invalid> - 2016-04-01 20:39 +0000
Re: Drowning in a teacup? Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2016-04-01 14:52 -0600
Re: Drowning in a teacup? MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2016-04-01 21:45 +0100
Re: Drowning in a teacup? Michael Selik <michael.selik@gmail.com> - 2016-04-01 20:46 +0000
Re: Drowning in a teacup? Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-04-02 09:46 +1100
Re: Drowning in a teacup? Fillmore <fillmore_remove@hotmail.com> - 2016-04-02 00:03 -0400
Re: Drowning in a teacup? Vito De Tullio <vito.detullio@gmail.com> - 2016-04-02 07:45 +0200
Re: Drowning in a teacup? Michael Selik <michael.selik@gmail.com> - 2016-04-02 05:51 +0000
Re: Drowning in a teacup? Vito De Tullio <vito.detullio@gmail.com> - 2016-04-02 08:26 +0200
Re: Drowning in a teacup? Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2016-04-02 12:31 +0200
Re: Drowning in a teacup? Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2016-04-02 12:53 +0100
Re: Drowning in a teacup? Michael Selik <michael.selik@gmail.com> - 2016-04-02 14:36 +0000
Re: Drowning in a teacup? Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com> - 2016-04-02 12:28 -0700
Re: Drowning in a teacup? Random832 <random832@fastmail.com> - 2016-04-02 15:54 -0400
Re: Drowning in a teacup? Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-04-03 12:33 +1000
Re: Drowning in a teacup? Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2016-04-02 16:15 -0700
Re: Drowning in a teacup? Random832 <random832@fastmail.com> - 2016-04-02 19:19 -0400
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