Programming intro book ch1 and ch2 (Windows/Python 3) - Request For Comments

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Sun, 20 Dec 2009 08:29:43 +0100, Alf P. Steinbach wrote:

> I recently (just weeks
> ago) was astounded to see that a C++ "expert" thought that Java had pass
> by reference, apparently because in Java only references are passed
> around.

The Java community, for some bizarre reason, has a tendency to describe 
Java's argument passing model (which is identical to Python's) as "pass 
by reference" even though it is nothing like pass by reference in 
languages that actually have it (such as Pascal).

There is nothing so simple that it can't be totally confused by 
sufficiently stupid terminology.


-- 
Steven