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this is over complicating the model to avoid saying what for some reason people are terrified to say: that objects are just pointers. when you pass an object yo
by adrusi 14y ago
this is over complicating the model to avoid saying what for some reason people are terrified to say: that objects are just pointers. when you pass an object you are passing the value of a reference. it's not that scary
- jknupp 14y agoThat's confusing the language specification with one of its implementations. In Jython, for example, objects are not "just pointers".
- adrusi 14y agono, they are still just pointers. they might be pointers to something fancier than a struct of its instance variables and abstracted by java's object system but in the end it's still a pointer
- herge 14y agoI have the impression than anyone who has issues with this never experienced programming in assembly.