A question on modification of a list via a function invocation

[Ben Bacarisse]

ram at zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) writes:

> Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet at bsb.me.uk> writes:
>>Steve D'Aprano <steve+python at pearwood.info> writes:
>>>"Java is call by value, dammit!"
>>I don't think this is a fair point.  You will run out of ideas if they
>>are to be avoided because some people will get the wrong idea when
>>reading part of a description of that idea applied to some other language.
>
>   You are trying to cool off the topic. An expression such as
>   "da...t!" should be avoided in a cold topic. But otherwise,
>   "Java is call by value." is just fine.

I didn't say it.

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Ben.