tsuyoshi on Is Python call-by-value or call-by-reference? Neither.

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I'm not too familiar with Python, but the semantics of Python described here match every other language that I can think of (including C). Can anyone give me an example of a language that is actually call-by-reference?

Jach 13y

C++ supports call-by-reference (and also call-by-value), here's an example of call-by-reference:

    #include <iostream>
    void swap(int &x, int &y) {
      int temp = x;
      x = y;
      y = temp;
    }
    int main() {
      int a = 3;
      int b = 4;
      std::cout << a; // 3
      std::cout << b; // 4
      swap(a, b);
      std::cout << a; // 4
      std::cout << b; // 3
    }

jsnell 13y

Perl.

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