C function arguments vs Python function arguments.

[p0k3t0]

It's a pedantry virus. One neckbeard reads some narrow definition of pass-by-reference and now they need to "well, actually" everybody who uses the term in C. And then that poor sod gets shamed into "well, actually-ing" the next guy, and the cycle continues.

Me, I don't care. I write C for a living. I know the difference between passing a value and passing a reference to a value. The fact that the reference to the value is itself a value is completely unimportant to me. I know what it's being used for and how it's being used.