passing by refference

[Aahz]

In article <ba0hrt$495$2 at ginger.mathworks.com>,
Joshua Marshall  <joshway_without_spam at myway.com> wrote:
>
>I don't think we disagree about semantics, only terminology.

Terminology *is* about semantics, to a certain extent; if we don't have
shared vocabulary, we can't communicate meaning.

>I don't think we'll make further progress here.

Probably not.
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