Java is Pass-by-Value, Dammit

Re:Java is Pass-by-Value, Dammit by _ZeD_ on Sunday March 22, 2015 @03:43AM (#9245972)

Storically, python devs says the python language use "pass-by-name"

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Re:Java is Pass-by-Value, Dammit by icebraining on Sunday March 22, 2015 @06:13AM (#9246237)

How so? Reading [1] on pass-by-name, I don't see how it applies to Python, which evaluates the function arguments before passing them.

The example given would be, in Python,

  def double(x):
    x *= 2
  a = [4]
  double(a[0])

If Python was pass-by-name, a would now be [8], but it's actually still [4].

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