Official definition of call-by-value (Re: Finding the instance reference...)

[Aaron Brady]

On Nov 13, 3:44 am, greg <g... at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
> Grant Edwards wrote:
> > I stopped paying much attention to this thread a while ago, but
> > you've got to admire the persistence of somebody who soldiers
> > on even though Aahz, Fredrik Lund, and Steve Holden are all on
> > the other side of the argument...
>
> Those people clearly know a great deal about Python,
> and I respect them for that. However, that doesn't
> necessarily make them authorities on programming
> language terminology.
>
> If you're going to indulge in argument by authority,
> you need to pick authorities that can be considered,
> er, authoritative in the field concerned...

The authors of C# and Java can be considered authorities in the field
concerned.  So authoritative, that if they want to redefine existing
terms, the masses must follow.