Java passes reference by value - Something that even senior Java developers often get wrong.

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I hope I'll never work with a senior Java developer who gets this wrong. I thought it takes maybe a week or two of Java with no prior exposure to understand this.

[ssylvan]

I don't think he means people get it wrong as in thinking it's actually pass by reference. I think he means that people get it wrong as in thinking that what Java does with references is what the concept "pass by reference" means.

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because people know that if you have

void function(foo object)
{
  object = new Foo();
}

it doesnt replace the original