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Re: Newbie surveying the multitudes of Programming Langs...




>whoops!   actually that was a mixup!   That weird thing was a feature
>of the Oz language ( a concurrant something or other language)..
>Instead of assignin a value to a variable it binds a variable to a
>value.  Say if you have a car class, and it has an odemeter property.
>Make a car called car1 and have it's odometer = 10000.  Make Car2 =
>car1.  change Car2's odemeter to equal 0 and you'll find that car1's
>odometer is now 0 as well.  It just strikes my newbie brain as goofy.
>


Whoops again..  That's not a mix up!  it actually is Dylan that does
this.    Sorry.   I just expect "magical" copying to occur due to my
limited experience with C like stuff.



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