greg wrote:
Arnaud Delobelle wrote:(CBV) An evaluation strategy where arguments are evaluated before the function or procedure is entered. Only the values of the arguments are passed and changes to the arguments within the called procedure have no effect on the actual arguments as seen by the caller.That hinges on what exactly is meant by "changes to the arguments".
Mutating them, like Python does, which is why calling Python CBV leads people to write buggy code.
>In Python it can only mean assigning
directly to the bare name -- anything else isn't changing the argument itself, but something else to which the argument refers.
Hogwash. The argument is the object and mutable objects can be changed as seen by the caller.
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