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

[Aaron Brady]

On Nov 17, 8:35 pm, Craig Allen <callen... at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >> * Do all objects have values? (Ignore the Python
> > >>  docs if necessary.)
>
> > > If one allows null values, I am current thinking yes.
>
> > I don't see a difference between a "null value"
> > and not having a value.
>
> I think the difference is concrete... an uninitialized variable in C
> has no value, I'd say, because the value it will have is
> indeterminate, it will be whatever happens to be sitting at that
> location in memory, inconsistent.  If that variable is initialized to
> some value representing "none", like NULL, then it has a consistent
> value of "none".  There is no way to have an uninitialized variable in
> python, so they are always consistently set, so they always have
> values.
>
> ?

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He'd just say it.

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