Whenever I hear the song, "Ye Jackobites by name" (or is that the
first line of the chorus?)
I want to write another one. But you do not have to be computer
literate to do this.

As an (ex?) computer programmer I know that one way to refer to a
variable is by name and the other is by value. By name you get the
variable's location so that you can fool with its contents, by value
you get the variable's contents.
So Jacobites (Jacobytes? spelling may not have been standardized
back then) by value would be anyone who has the same values, just
maybe not the name.

I have not the practice nor talent for this, you might.

Could someone have a try?

Sean

You're thinking of call-by-reference. Call-by-name (dynamic binding)
is less common; first designed into Algol 60 and used in some dialects
of LISP.

"Ye Jacobites By Reference" has a bit of a scansion problem. Ada has
yet another call mechanism, "call-by-value-and-result", which is even
less promising.

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