Parameter Passing Mechanisms
This section discusses different ways of passing parameters to a method that are used in different programming languages. I will not discuss anything that is specific to Java in this section. The syntax or symbols used in this section may not be supported by Java. This section is important to programmers in understanding the memory states in the process of a method call. If you are an experienced programmer, you may skip this section. The next section will discuss the parameter passing mechanisms in Java.
The following are some of the mechanisms to pass parameters to a method:
- Pass by value
- Pass by constant value
- Pass by reference
- Pass by reference value
- Pass by result
- Pass by result value
- Pass by name
- Pass by need ...
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