Python complaints

[skaller]

James Logajan wrote:
 
> No one is asking
> for 2 to become 3, merely that *REFERENCES* be mutable. You couldn't
> accomplish a whole hell of a lot of computation if references always pointed
> to the same values for all time!

This is the case for functional languages,
and they can compute everything you want.

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