The meaning of a = b in object oriented languages

[Ben Finney]

Summercool <Summercoolness at gmail.com> writes:

> I just want to confirm that in OOP, if a is an object, then b = a is
> only copying the reference.

Whether the language is OO or not has no bearing on this question. The
semantics of the assignment operator can and do differ between
languages, orthogonal to whether OOP is involved.

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