On Mon, Mar 05, 2012 at 03:58:59PM -0800, Hervé Pagès wrote: > Hi Oliver, > > On 03/05/2012 09:08 AM, oliver wrote: > >On Mon, Mar 05, 2012 at 03:53:28PM +0000, William Dunlap wrote: > >>I haven't used Julia yet, but from my quick reading > >>of the docs it looks like arguments to functions are > >>passed by reference and not by value, so functions > >>can change their arguments. My recollection from when > >>I first started using S (in the course of a job helping > >>profs and grad students do statistical programming, c. 1983) > >>is that not having to worry about in-place algorithms changing > >>your data gave S a big advantage over Fortran or C. > >[...] > > > > > >C also uses Call-by-Value. > > C *only* uses Call-by-Value. [...]
Yes, that's what I meant. With "also" I meant, that it uses call-by-value, as some other languages also do. Ciao, Oliver ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
