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		praptak on Aug 21, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: NewLisp They also provide mechanisms to pass by reference. Default pass-by-copy with specially enabled pass-by-reference is indeed the opposite from most other languages do. I wonder how this interacts with things like memory paging and CPU cache.

_delirium on Aug 21, 2011 [–]

Default pass-by-copy with specially enabled pass-by-reference isn't that uncommon; it's how C++ works, for example.

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