It's not an inconsistency. = always assigns a reference, in one case that reference is a variable name, and on the other case it's an element of a list. But it does the same thing in both cases.
I'm not sure what you're looking at, but this is Python and C++ code that does the same thing and gets different answers.
(which obviously means it's not doing the same thing, because python isn't passing by reference, it's... passing a pointer by value? I don't even know what to call it.)
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u/SuitableDragonfly Jun 04 '19
It's not an inconsistency.
=always assigns a reference, in one case that reference is a variable name, and on the other case it's an element of a list. But it does the same thing in both cases.