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Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2015 03:34:15 +1000
Subject: Re: Terminology: "reference" versus "pointer"
From: Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
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On Sun, Sep 13, 2015 at 3:24 AM, Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> wrote:
> Note: when I write my own Python implementation, all IDs will be negative
> odd numbers.

When I build my own CPU architecture, all memory addresses will be
negative odd numbers, so people think your Python uses addresses
again.

</troll>

ChrisA