passing by refference

[Jeremy Hylton]

On Tue, 2003-05-13 at 13:13, Joshua Marshall wrote:
> Mel Wilson <mwilson at the-wire.com> wrote:
> > In article <mailman.1052835140.9801.python-list at python.org>,
> > Daan Hoogland <hoogland at astron.nl> wrote:
> >>is passing by reffence possible in python?
> 
> >    Everything in Python is passed by reference.
> ...
> 
> This is incorrect terminology.  Python has call-by-value semantics,
> not call-by-reference (it is not possible to pass a reference to a
> variable into a function).

If we care to debate terminology, then neither call-by-value nor
call-by-reference apply.  Python has call-by-object semantics.  As far
as I know, the first use of call-by-object was in a description of CLU.

Jeremy