At 07:23 AM 5/16/2008 -0400, you wrote: >> ... 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"
Good suggestion. I've made the change. -- Dave _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list Edu-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig