[Tutor] beginning to code

[Bill]

Stephan Houben wrote:
> Op 2017-09-23, Rick Johnson schreef <rantingrickjohnson at gmail.com>:
>> These pissing contests over how values are passed in Python
>> are totally irrelevant. What does it matter? Nothing will be
>> gained or lost by arguing over which is true, or not. Unless
>> the distinction is preventing you from doing something that
>> you'd like to do, or unless you want to argue that one
>> "value passing method" would bring X, Y or Z benefits over
>> the other, what does it matter?
> Amen.
>

All one has to do, I think, is consider (1) that passing objects by 
"making copies" of them, would be prohibitively expensive and consider 
that something else has to happen as an alternative, and (2) understand 
that in Python, objects don't have names, they have references (which 
have names).  The rest could be "implementation dependent" (no?)   To be 
amusing, how did the chicken pass an egg to 
the_other_side_of_the_road(e)?  Could the egg get crushed (stay tuned)?