As I said elsewhere in this thread, personally I use the term "pass-by-pointer-value". Barbara Liskov used the term "pass-by-sharing" (actually "call-by-sharing

As I said elsewhere in this thread, personally I use the term "pass-by-pointer-value". Barbara Liskov used the term "pass-by-sharing" (actually "call-by-sharing") when she invented the damn thing in 1974. [1] "Pass-by-reference" is simply wrong, as it implies behavior which Java does not exhibit. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evaluation_strategy#Call_by_sharing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evaluation_strategy#Call_by_sh...