passing by refference

[Fredrik Lundh]

Tim Peters wrote:

> So it goes -- believe it or not, sometimes different people mean different
> things by the same words <wink>.

that's why you should use URLs and URLs only to identify concepts.

> The business of warping "call by value" to mean "the internal address of
> the object is the value" doesn't seem common even in the functional world,
> though.

well, I guess you can, in theory, value an artificial number assigned
to an object as much as the object itself.

    "Joe, I think our son might be lost in the woods"
    "Don't worry, I have his social security number"

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