alt Hacker NewsEverything being passed by object reference just means every case is equally unclear.
answer = frobnicate(foo)
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kstrauser • yesterday at 1:18 PM
No. It can’t. It can only destroy its own reference to foo, not the calling scope’s reference.
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If you mean that it can modify it, you should say that. It can't destroy it as that term is generally understood.