"Michael H. Goldwasser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote >> It does have the concept of C++ references however and in fact >> thats how Pyhon variables work. They are all references.
> However I strongly disagree with your suggestion that Python's > variables work like C++ reference variables. You are quite correct, I overstated the similarity, especially in saying that they "work like" C++ references. I was really only refering to the fact that in both cases the references are to other variables/objects rather than to memory locations. But the underlying semantics are quite different. > reference variable must be initially bound to an existing object and > that association cannot henceforth be changed. But I had actually forgotten that references could not be reassigned. My C++ is pretty rusty, I haven't used C++ much in the last 7 or 8 years! :-) Thanks for the clarification Michael. Alan G. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
