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So the article is pretty consistently misleading/incorrect. A pointer is a data structure like any other, in fact Java is pass-by-value, the pointer values are

by shock 9y ago

So the article is pretty consistently misleading/incorrect. A pointer is a data structure like any other, in fact Java is pass-by-value, the pointer values are copied when objects are being passed as function arguments.

Rusky 9y ago
To me it seems it's just using different terminology than you expected. I've heard and used the article's version plenty of times and it generally works in context.