On Mon, 01 Oct 2007 01:53:47 GMT, Roedy Green
<see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> declaimed the following in
comp.lang.python:


> Seem to me you could in FORTRAN and Pascal, and maybe even Algol. It
> has been a while.
>
Everything in classic FORTRAN is a passed as a reference -- even
constant arguments are passed as a reference to the memory location
containing that constant (which is why it was possible in very early
FORTRANs to have "a = 1 + 1" yield something other than "2" if preceded
by, say, "call mutate(1)" where mutate looks like:

subroutine mutate(arg)
arg = arg * 2
end

)
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