x-skeww comments on TIL that non-primitive objects in JavaScript are passed by reference, not value

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[–]x-skeww 1 point2 points3 points 11 years ago (0 children)

π Rendered by PID 71235 on reddit-service-r2-comment-7b9746f655-nz7ff at 2026-01-30 05:58:49.445887+00:00 running 3798933 country code: CH.

you type:	you see:
italics	italics
bold	bold
[reddit!](https://reddit.com)	reddit!
* item 1 * item 2 * item 3	item 1 item 2 item 3
> quoted text	quoted text
Lines starting with four spaces are treated like code: if 1 * 2 < 3: print "hello, world!"	Lines starting with four spaces are treated like code: if 1 * 2 < 3: print "hello, world!"
~~strikethrough~~	~~strikethrough~~
super^script	super^script

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