[Tutor] How to Pass lists by value

[w chun]

On 12/6/05, Alan Gauld <alan.gauld at freenet.co.uk> wrote:
> Lots of good stuff from Wes snipped...
> >  (a side note here: that only mutable objects have methods.)
>
> But this is not quite true. Strings are immutable and have lots
> of methods and even tuples and plain integers have methods


oh POO.  i *knew* i shouldn't have been replying in the middle of the
nite.  yes, they all really do.  string methods are even available "to
the public," i.e. by default already defined, unlike those where you
have to override them to "make them work."

what i really wanted to say was that because objects are passed in by
reference, any mutable object's methods that modify it will
(obviously) propagate those changes regardless of where you reference
that object.

i think the main point was altering a mutable object vs. reassigning
the reference to another object.

thanks for keeping me on my toes alan!
-- wesley

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