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Java Programming for Beginners
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Java Programming for Beginners

by SkillSprints Inc., Mark Lassoff
October 2017
Beginner
318 pages
7h 26m
English
Packt Publishing
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Understanding passing parameters

Well, let's take a look at what happens when we pass x to a method by value. As we know, when we pass a variable by value, we're telling Java to create a new variable in the context of the method that's going to have its own unique name and memory location:

However, this new variable-in our case, input-takes the value from the old variable as its own. When we were working with primitive types, these values were completely independent, but now both input and x have the values of the same location in memory. So, while modifying the value of input would not change the value of x, modifying the location of memory ...

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