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From: Roy Smith <roy@panix.com>
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Subject: Re: What other languages use the same data model as Python?
Date: Thu, 05 May 2011 10:31:33 -0400
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In article <ipubhb$e4q$2@reader1.panix.com>,
 Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote:

> That's what I was trying to say, but probably not as clearly.  The "&"
> operatore returnas a _value_ that the OP passes _by_value_ to a
> function.  That function then uses the "*" operator to use that value
> to access some data.

Then, of course, there's references in C++.  I think it's fair to call 
the following "call by reference" in the sense we're talking about it 
here.

void f(int& i) {
   i = 5;
}
int i = 42;
f(i);

Of course, C++ lets you go off the deep end with abominations like 
references to pointers.  Come to think of it, C++ let's you go off the 
deep end in so many ways...