A class question

Bruno Desthuilliers bdesth.quelquechose at free.quelquepart.fr
Tue Oct 30 16:02:54 EDT 2007


Hrvoje Niksic a écrit :
> Bruno Desthuilliers <bruno.42.desthuilliers at wtf.websiteburo.oops.com>
> writes:
> 
> 
>>>While Java's variable declarations bear a superficial (syntactical)
>>>similarity to C, their semantics is in fact equivalent to the
>>>object-reference semantics we know in Python.   They implicitly refer
>>>to objects allocated on the heap and, just like in Python, the same
>>>object can be referenced by multiple variables. 
>>
>>You're talking about reference types here - not primitive types. And
>>even then, from what I remember (not having done any Java these last
>>4 years at least), Java's reference types are much closer to C++
>>references than to Python.
> 
> 
> Feel free to look it up; I believe you will find the semantics of
> assignment, parameter-passing, etc., exactly the same as in Python.

I'll do - while perhaps not in a near future !-) - and keep you informed.



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