> ... In that situation, it does help to explain > Python's calling mechanism in terms that these students > understand. I've posted my answer at > http://ece.arizona.edu/~edatools/ece175/Lecture/QnA.txt >
One tiny "wordsmithing" suggestion ... Note: A call-by-reference in C is really just a call-by-value with the value being an explicitly computed address &x. In both cases the underlying mechanism is call-by-value. ... change "is really just" to "is accomplished by performing" -John _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list Edu-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig