On Wed, Sep 6, 2017 at 3:15 AM, Ned Batchelder <n...@nedbatchelder.com> wrote: > On 9/5/17 1:02 PM, Steve D'Aprano wrote: >> On Tue, 5 Sep 2017 11:37 pm, Gregory Ewing wrote: >> >>> Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: >>>> Pascal, probably Modula-2, Visual BASIC are closer to the C++ reference >>>> semantics, in that the definition of a function declares how the >>>> argument(s) are passed. >>> Well, sort of. In Pascal and Modula, and also VB I think, >>> parameters are the only things that can be declared as having >>> reference semantics, whereas references in C++ are first-class >>> things that can be stored in any variable. >> No, they aren't first-class. > > Did you mis-read Gregory's claim? He said, "references *in C++* are > first-class things". You seem to be talking below about Python things. >
And everything Steve said was about C++ references, which are a form of alias. Not a 'thing'. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
