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Re: question on passing variable to function by reference

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  • Subject: [mg113550] Re: question on passing variable to function by reference
  • From: "Sjoerd C. de Vries" <sjoerd.c.devries at gmail.com>
  • Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2010 05:01:44 -0500 (EST)
  • References: <iam364$k2l$1@smc.vnet.net>

Actually, I thought you couldn't do a 'pass by reference' in
Mathematica, but this really looks like the real thing.

You might want to add a test to check that list is really a List, but
otherwise I don't see a problem.

Cheers -- Sjoerd

On Nov 1, 11:01 am, "Nasser M. Abbasi" <n... at 12000.org> wrote:
> Suppose I want to pass an array to function to be filled in by some value=


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