Finding the instance reference of an object

Bruno Desthuilliers bruno.42.desthuilliers at websiteburo.invalid
Tue Nov 4 11:18:21 EST 2008


Joe Strout a écrit :
> On Nov 3, 2008, at 5:27 PM, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch wrote:
> 
>> Maybe this is a surprise for you, because we haven't discussed this in
>> much detail in this group lately, but it applies to Python which does
>> call-by-object or call-by-sharing.  ;-)
> 
> There's no such thing.  Those are just terms made up by the Python 
> community

Did you read *any* of the many answers in this thread ? This term comes 
from lisp, and existed years before Python.

> to in place of the more standard "call-by-value" terminology 
> to make Python seem more mysterious than it really is.

Looks a bit paranoid to me.



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