From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Tue Nov  4 22:59:34 2003
Subject: Re: Realtime cost of call by value
From: Tomer Altman <taltman at lbl dot gov>
To: Randy Gober <GoberR at Bellsouth dot net>
cc: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2003 04:58:51 +0000 (UTC)

I don't really care too much for '&' versus any other identifyer, the
only thing that I have a strong opinion on is that the syntax should
be limited to the function definition, not the function call. This
will avoid breaking existing code, etc.

~Tomer



On Nov 4, 2003 at 8:23pm, Randy Gober wrote:

GoberR >Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2003 20:23:20 -0600
GoberR >From: Randy Gober <GoberR at Bellsouth dot net>
GoberR >To: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
GoberR >Subject: Re: Realtime cost of call by value
GoberR >Resent-Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2003 20:23:52 -0600
GoberR >Resent-From: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
GoberR >
GoberR >
GoberR >|From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Tue Nov  4
GoberR >09:52:02 2003
GoberR >|Subject: Re: Realtime cost of call by value
GoberR >|From: "Mark P. Esplin" <mark at srl-sdl dot org>
GoberR >|To: help-octave <help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
GoberR >|Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2003 10:49:37 -0500
GoberR >|
GoberR >|	For what it is worth, I like the C++ syntax with a "&" best then
GoberR >"byref" 
GoberR >|next
GoberR >
GoberR >
GoberR >I also like &A. It makes for since for an argument list as in
GoberR >
GoberR >  function multiarg(&A,B,&C,D,&E)
GoberR >
GoberR >
GoberR >Using byref or reference can get to be bit cumbersome, e.g.
GoberR >
GoberR > function multiarg(reference A,B,reference C,D,reference E)
GoberR >
GoberR >
GoberR >
GoberR >--Randy
GoberR >
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