By this obtuse definition of 'pass by reference', Nothing with a C-like function call stack will 'pass by reference'. Programming languages that approximate 'pa

By this obtuse definition of 'pass by reference', Nothing with a C-like function call stack will 'pass by reference'. Programming languages that approximate 'pass by reference' will actually pass a pointer to the called function that points to a value in the callee's stack frame. The pointer in the called function is a local variable, so changing the value of that has no effect in the callee's scope. Changing the contents of the thing pointed to is the only _meaningful_ 'pass by reference', and practically most languages have that. (including Go)