Call by binding [was Re: [Tutor] beginning to code]

[Antoon Pardon]

Op 25-09-17 om 00:39 schreef Gregory Ewing:
> Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
>>     "Binding" itself tends to be Python specific terminology -- in
>> that it
>> is the parameter /name/ that gets bound/attached to the argument
>> /object/.
>> It is the same method as used in any Python "assignment" statement,
>
> Which is why I think "call by assignment" would be
> a much better term!
>
But since the semantics of an assignment depends
on the language, "call by assignment" says nothing
abouth the semantics of the parameter passing.

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Antoon Pardon