[Python-ideas] Documenting Python warts (original) (raw)
Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Wed Jan 2 21:58:56 CET 2013
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alex23 wrote:
There is no way you can make Python fit either the call by reference or call by value models, although people regularly try,
No, what happens is that different people have different ideas about what those terms mean, and they talk past each other. So they've become useless nowadays, and are best avoided altogether unless you want to start a month-long argument.
-- Greg
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