Grumpy-pants spoil-sport

[Marko Rauhamaa]

Antoon Pardon <antoon.pardon at vub.be>:

> That wont happen as long as people continue to do damage with e.g.
> claiming that the python assignment is not an alias operation.
>
> There is IMO no conceptual damage by regarding the call semantics
> as call by reference.

I don't think the clear description of Python's semantics requires the
use of such terms ("alias", "call by XXX"). It would be enough to
specify what actually happens.


Marko