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Article #7171Re: Altering data with a method call
From: CLG
Date: Sun, 08 Jul 2001 21:13
Date: Sun, 08 Jul 2001 21:13
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This discussion comes up once a week here. You can change anything inside of theobject. Thus, if you want modified vvalues, they must be placed inside of a wrapper object. Its like in c when you pass a pointer to a pointer. Search the forums here for pass by value and pass by reference. -- Peace, Carl L. Gilbert http://www.rigidsoftware.com ICQ 614395-currently stolen working to retrieve. "Then said I, Wisdom [is] better than strength: nevertheless the poor man's wisdom [is] despised, and his words are not heard." Ecclesiastes 9:16 "David Chandler" <davidschandler@netzero.net> wrote in message news:3B4812BB.F35B508E@netzero.net... > I am moving from Pascal to Java. In Pascal you could pass either values or > variables to a procedure. Variables get altered so the revised data gets > passed back. Java allows you to pass only values. I can get a single > return value, but what if I want a method to alter other variables? Do I > have to rely on globals? > > What is the usual practice here? > > -- > David Chandler > >
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