Sujet : Re: on call by reference
De : ldo (at) *nospam* nz.invalid (Lawrence D'Oliveiro)
Groupes : comp.lang.schemeDate : 21. Mar 2024, 23:12:36
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On Thu, 21 Mar 2024 18:08:12 +0000, Chris Vine wrote:
... but for mutable entities it behaves like call by reference ...
This has already been discussed. Only parts of the passed entity can be
mutated this way, it cannot be replaced with another complete entity as
far as the caller is concerned. Thus, it is still “call by value”.