Paul Graham on Python hackers
Ville Vainio
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Sun Aug 8 03:20:09 EDT 2004
>>>>> "Mike" == Michael Geary <Mike at Geary.com> writes:
zoltan> This a flamebait, right? Otherwise I would be interested
zoltan> in the features which make Python similar to Java
zoltan> (shudder).
Mike> Ville Vainio:
>> Abundant reference semantics. Of course this is true of all OOP
Mike> What are "Abundant reference semantics"?
References are used all over the language:
MyClass o = GetObject();
MyClass o2 = o; // o2 will point to the name object
This is much like in Python (being the optimal way of doing OOP after
all), and in contrast to Perl and C++ that have special syntax for
using references/pointers.
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