Top "Pass-by-reference" questions

Pass by reference is an argument marshalling strategy whereby a variable's location in memory is passed to a function, rather than a copy of the variable's value, although the function appears in the source code to receive the variable itself rather than a pointer to it.

Is Java "pass-by-reference" or "pass-by-value"?

I always thought Java uses pass-by-reference. However, I've seen a couple of blog posts (for example, this blog) that claim …

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How do I pass a variable by reference?

The Python documentation seems unclear about whether parameters are passed by reference or value, and the following code produces the …

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What's the difference between passing by reference vs. passing by value?

What is the difference between a parameter passed by reference a parameter passed by value? Could you give me some …

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Pass variables by reference in JavaScript

How do I pass variables by reference in JavaScript? I have three variables that I want to perform several operations …

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change values in array when doing foreach

example: var arr = ["one","two","three"]; arr.forEach(function(part){ part = "four"; return "four"; }) alert(arr); The array is still …

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Passing by reference in C

If C does not support passing a variable by reference, why does this work? #include <stdio.h> void …

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Is JavaScript a pass-by-reference or pass-by-value language?

The primitive types (number, string, etc.) are passed by value, but objects are unknown, because they can be both passed-by-value (…

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JavaScript by reference vs. by value

I'm looking for some good comprehensive reading material on when JavaScript passes something by value and when by reference and …

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Passing an array by reference in C?

How can I pass an array of structs by reference in C? As an example: struct Coordinate { int X; int …

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Passing Objects By Reference or Value in C#

In C#, I have always thought that non-primitive variables were passed by reference and primitive values passed by value. So …

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