>>>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.
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>So I misread your intention :). Not the first time - thanks for having the patience to clear this up.
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>>BTW, who is Nadya? <g>
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>Nadya is to Naomi what Renoir is to Jay.
Isn't it the other way around: Nadya is to Naomi what Jay is to Renoir <g>
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