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Re: object argument passing behaviour changed in v8.2.2? [message #86266 is a reply to message #86265]

Tue, 22 October 2013 07:43

David Fanning
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Paul van Delst writes:

> It's probably my advancing age

Well, if you are like me, there is no doubt about this. :-)

This situation sorta makes sense to me, though.

I think subscripted arrays are passed by value, not by reference. But,
in the case of an object, the *fields* of the object are often pointers
and other objects (i.e., heap variables) that act like normal variables
and are passed by reference. So, you really do find yourself in this
sort of quantum state where the cat is both alive and dead at the same
time. :-)

Cheers,

David

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		Re: object argument passing behaviour changed in v8.2.2? By: chris_torrence@NOSPAM on Mon, 21 October 2013 16:07
		Re: object argument passing behaviour changed in v8.2.2? By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Tue, 22 October 2013 05:16
		Re: object argument passing behaviour changed in v8.2.2? By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Tue, 22 October 2013 06:03
		Re: object argument passing behaviour changed in v8.2.2? By: David Fanning on Tue, 22 October 2013 06:39
		Re: object argument passing behaviour changed in v8.2.2? By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Tue, 22 October 2013 07:10
		Re: object argument passing behaviour changed in v8.2.2? By: David Fanning on Tue, 22 October 2013 07:43
		Re: object argument passing behaviour changed in v8.2.2? By: David Fanning on Tue, 22 October 2013 07:51
		Re: object argument passing behaviour changed in v8.2.2? By: chris_torrence@NOSPAM on Tue, 22 October 2013 08:57
		Re: object argument passing behaviour changed in v8.2.2? By: David Fanning on Tue, 22 October 2013 09:47
		Re: object argument passing behaviour changed in v8.2.2? By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Tue, 22 October 2013 09:59
		Re: object argument passing behaviour changed in v8.2.2? By: chris_torrence@NOSPAM on Tue, 22 October 2013 10:17

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