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argument passing

• To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
• Subject: [mg14110] argument passing
• From: mortena at vipe.ii.uib.no (Morten N. Aasnes)
• Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 03:15:34 -0400
• Organization: University of Bergen, Norway
• Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

How does mathematica pass arguments to functions? If I have a realy
large list, and make a function to take a list as argument, and return
a certain element, will the list given as argument be copied when the
function is called, and if so, how do I avoid this?

thanks in advance.

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