"J. Peng" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> $ cat t1.py
> def test(x):
> x = [4,5,6]
>
> a=[1,2,3]
> test(a)
> print a
>
> $ python t1.py
> [1, 2, 3]
>
> $ cat t1.pl
> sub test {
> my $ref = shift;
> @$ref = (4,5,6);
> }
@$ref = (4, 5, 6) intentionally assigns to the same list pointed to by
the reference. That would be spelled as x[:] = [4, 5, 6] in Python.
What Python does in your example is assign the same as Perl's $ref =
[4, 5, 6]. So they're not so different after all.
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