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Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2014 17:36:52 +1100
Subject: Re: Can global variable be passed into Python function?
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On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 6:20 AM, Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> wrote:
> On the question of how variables can be passed to functions, C, of
> course, has the & operator and Pascal has the "var" keyword.

That doesn't pass a variable into a function, though. It passes the
address of that variable, and C lets you stuff something into an
address. That's not the same thing.

ChrisA