A question on modification of a list via a function invocation

[Steve D'Aprano]

On Mon, 4 Sep 2017 08:52 pm, Antoon Pardon wrote:

> Op 04-09-17 om 12:22 schreef Stefan Ram:
>> Rustom Mody <rustompmody at gmail.com> writes:
>>>> Stefan Ram wrote:
>>>>> JavaScript and Python do not have references as values
>>>> Yes, they do. The difference is that they don't have any
>> ...
>>> Its because reference (or pointer or ?) is central to python's semantics
>>   If they are so central, then it should be easy to show
>>   quotes from The Python Language Reference to support that
>>   claim.
> 
> The section about assignment talks about reference counts.

Does that mean that IronPython and Jython aren't implementations of Python? They
have no reference counts.




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Steve
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