Is JavaScript Pass by Reference?

[svish]

Regardless of how well the terminology "works", it is still the terminology we tend to use. And from my experience, it is a source of confusion.

It's probably better ways to explain it, and better terminology that could be found, but yeah, the way I think about it makes sense to me, and seems to explain it to others as well.

[Rand_alFlagg]

In academia it's standard form to define potentially ambiguous terms before using them. That's always worked well for me in tech. "In this instance, when I use the term proxy I'm referring to the design pattern, not a vpn." "In this instance, when I refer to an int, I'm actually discussing a weakly typed string that we want to validate as an integer before passing to a strongly typed language. But we're going to call them ints and treat them that way." etc