pointer

[Joshua Marshall]

Jeff Shannon <jeff at ccvcorp.com> wrote:
> In article <a8vk7h$apk$1 at news.mathworks.com>, 
> jmarshal at mathworks.com says...
>> 
>> To emulate the semantics of pointers, I like using single-element
>> lists, as some others have suggested.
>> 

> I prefer to *not* emulate the semantics of pointers.  If I have 
> data that needs to be changed in such a way, I'll put it in a 
> class and change it through a method.  If I wanted to fiddle with 
> pointers, I'd program in C.

But then you weren't the one asking about pointers in Python :)

I do agree though.  Other non-pointery approaches are cleaner.