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TazeTSchnitzel on March 22, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Java is Pass-by-Value, Dammit

What Java does is pretty much equivalent to putting an asterisk in your C/C++ typedefs:

    typedef struct _foo* Foo;

metaobject on March 22, 2015 [–]

I'm guessing this is why you have to call "new" to create new objects in Java?

TazeTSchnitzel on March 22, 2015 | [–]

Java's new is similar to C++'s new as I understand it, yes. It allocates memory, initialises an object, and produces a pointer.

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