but it's not a question of opinion. it's a question of experience. the call-by-sharing approach comes, afaict, from comp.lang.python where they spend most of

but it's not a question of opinion. it's a question of experience. the call-by-sharing approach comes, afaict, from comp.lang.python where they spend most of their time explaining things to newbies. and this is apparently what works best for them. personally, i find it confusing and near useless. but then i don't need to read some blog entry to understand python's semantics. so this really isn't about me. again: this is a cultural thing, from c.l.p. - it apparently works well for them.