Yes. This is what lmm and others in this thread are missing. Pass-by-reference includes behavior which Java does not exhibit but which several other languages (

Yes. This is what lmm and others in this thread are missing. Pass-by-reference includes behavior which Java does not exhibit but which several other languages (C++, C and Lisp macros, etc.) do. You can't call Java pass-by-reference just because it feels right to you. It is a phrase which means something which some languages are and Java is not.