Making the move...

[Geoff Canyon]

On Mar 20, 2006, at 6:20 PM, Sarah Reichelt wrote:

> I haven't ever really tested it and I have an instinctive feeling that
> functions should be self-sufficient and shouldn't change anything
> outside them. Maybe it will suit me better in some circumstances.

This is true, but passing by reference doesn't violate this,  
depending on how it's used. If you have a clear-cut function that  
operates on a value passed by reference because of its size, that's  
not a bad thing I don't think.

gc