modifing function's parameters global value

[Steven Taschuk]

Quoth Chad Netzer:
> On Tue, 2003-05-13 at 11:16, Federico wrote:
  [...]
> > there is no way to modify a parameter in a function? In C I used pointers...
> 
> There are ways, but doing things this way is considered awful practice. 
> Even in C, when it is done, it is mainly because C is less flexible
> about return types.
  [...]

A couple weeks ago, Jeff Epler wrote a nice post on the same
subject, looking at three typical examples of passing-a-pointer
technique in C(++) and the usual Python techniques for the same
problems:

    <http://groups.google.com/groups?th=5c54ac4ec68aeafa#link6>

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