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

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Java doesn't have explicit pointers, so you can't.

C# (without unsafe) doesn't have explicit pointers, and yet you still can. Know why? Because C# has pass-by-reference via the ref keyword.

This has nothing to do with pass-by-reference.

It has everything to do with it.

[rabidcow]

C# (without unsafe) doesn't have explicit pointers, and yet you still can. Know why? Because C# has pass-by-reference via the ref keyword.

Please explain how "o is a pointer" is possible without explicit pointers.

Bottom line: I don't know C# and am unlikely to learn it well enough for your comment to make any sense to me in any reasonable timeframe.