>>And I agree about your initial remark to Nadya, there is a potential danger that the object passed may be re-referenced if passed by reference. Though, I've done pretty much the same thing as she did in my recurse class and never had a problem, probably because I didn't need to reuse the object passed after the recursion routine exits.
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>I understand the point you were making and agree with your analysis. Also, I still think that you mixed us up. The discussion was about changing a parameter and its effect in the calling program.

So I misread your intention :). Not the first time - thanks for having the patience to clear this up.

>BTW, who is Nadya? <g>

Nadya is to Naomi what Renoir is to Jay.