harrismh777 wrote:
Grant Edwards wrote:
I give up. You don't seem to understand the C language defintion or
what is commonly meant by "pass by reference".
ah, don't give up... here is a link that might help to clarify some of
these semantics... me thinks:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pass_by_reference#Call_by_value
Indeed it does (emphasis added):
"In call-by-reference evaluation (also referred to as
pass-by-reference), a function receives an *implicit* reference to a
variable used as argument"
In C the the reference is explicit, which the article states in the next
paragraph:
"Even among languages that don't exactly support call-by-reference,
many, including C and ML, support explicit references (objects that
refer to other objects), such as pointers"
~Ethan~
PS
My thanks to those who kept explaining in various ways about the
difference between language supported features and programmer constructs
-- I hadn't realized before this thread that call-by-reference was not a
language feature of C, but rather a programmer-implemented feature using
the C operators.
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