"pass by reference?"

[Bengt Richter]

On Sun, 24 Feb 2002 00:16:49 +0100, Magnus =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Lyck=E5?= <magnus at thinkware.se> wrote:

[... an epistle covering the subject ...]

which I didn't see until now. I wonder if that is due to the difference between

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and

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Sorry for duplicating examples as if your post didn't exist (for me it didn't yet,
though sometimes I overlook something).

I could just have added a comment about __getval__, __update__, and ':='
(see other post of mine in this thread).

Regards,
Bengt Richter