C# has a name for Go's object semantics: Marshal By Reference. This means that when an object features in a call, the GC pointer aka reference is passed (by val

C# has a name for Go's object semantics: Marshal By Reference. This means that when an object features in a call, the GC pointer aka reference is passed (by value) rather than the object value itself. This reference is fundamentally different from the reference concept in C++. So the term reference is semantically overloaded and means different things in different programming languages. However, the phrase "pass by reference" is language independent and the author is correct, it doesn't have those semantics.