Re: changing reference in a method

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From: Michael Rachow
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 20:40

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You are able to assign a reference to another instance but this has impact
inside
that method only.
In that case you use this "former" parameter now as a local variable.
Using final would remove that possibility.
On entry to a method call you get a reference to an object and you can
change
that object by using it's (class) interface.
The place where the reference itself is stored is given by value.
Your method gets a copy of that reference.
So you can set this reference holder to any other reference
but this will have no effect on the reference outside your class.

?!?!
Michael

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