why cannot assign to function call

[Aaron Brady]

On Dec 29, 1:05 pm, Scott David Daniels <Scott.Dani... at Acm.Org> wrote:
> John Machin wrote:
> > On Dec 29, 5:01 pm, scsoce <scs... at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> I have a function return a reference,
>
> > Stop right there. You don't have (and can't have, in Python) a
> > function which returns a reference that acts like a pointer in C or C+
> > +. Please tell us what manual, tutorial, book, blog or Usenet posting
> > gave you that idea, and we'll get the SWAT team sent out straight
> > away.
>
> Perhaps we can send the the Pennsylvania State University out after
> them.  I don't know why, but some fairly substantial people here are
> scared of the PSU.
>
> ...
>
> Oh, I have just been informed by my captors that the are the Python
> Secre....

--Why would he take the time to carve "ARGHHH!"?
--Maybe he was dictating.