[Tutor] scope question

[Norvell Spearman]

On Wednesday, 2003.01.15, 16:27:28 -0700, Poor Yorick wrote:
> Not sure exactly what you mean.  You can often use the return value of a 
> function to modify something.  For example:

I was using terminology from the ``Think'' tutorial.  A pure function is
like a mathematical function:  f(x) = x**2 returns a value without
modifying x.

> No, bar and bam are now identifiers for the sam object in memory, and 
> that is the only object you are going to be changing.  Within the scope 
> of the function, you have effectively lost your handle to the object 
> passed in as parameter "bar".

Ah.  Thanks.

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Norvell Spearman