A question on modification of a list via a function invocation

[Gregory Ewing]

Chris Angelico wrote:
> You can't do this with Python, since pointer arithmetic fundamentally
> doesn't exist.

Pointer arithmetic doesn't exist in Pascal either, yet
Pascal most definitely has pointers as a distinct data
type.

Insisting that only pointer arithmetic counts as
"manipulating" pointers seems a strange way of defining
the word.

-- 
Greg