passing by refference

[Martin Chilvers]

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

I'm not disagreeing with the argument against the 'call by  value'
terminology, but I think the above statement is somewhat misleading! The
'artificial number' is obviously not valuable, but the notion of an
'object reference' *is*. I don't care how the system locates objects, I
just care that I have an object that lets me do just that.

Martin Chilvers, Enthought Inc.

"There's no such thing as free software."