Re: Big Question !!!

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From: Tor Iver Wilhelmsen
Date: Fri, 03 Sep 1999 00:00

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Gemplus Software <gemplus.software@gemplus.com> writes:

> displays myXXX is myInt = 2. Why ????

Because you only change the method-local reference. In Java, all
arguments are passed by value. What is confusing is that the value of
an "object variable" is a pointer to the object, while the value of a
"primitive variable" is the promitive - number or bolean -
itself. Unlike e.g. Smalltalk and Python, Java does not use "number
objects", except for the utility/wrapper classes like
java.lang.Integer.

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