Java Glossary : call by value

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call by value: When you call a method, the method sees a copy of any primitives passed to it. Thus any changes it makes to those values have no effect on the caller's variables. This also applies to references passed as parameters. The caller cannot change the caller's reference variables, but it can change the fields in the caller's objects they point to.
call by reference ¤ parameters

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