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0 pointswool_gather6y ago0 comments

Ah, thanks for the link; I wasn't sure what it meant in the context of Java, since it's possible to get value semantics using a class.

Sorry about the confusion. I meant for the quotes around "copy-only" to indicate that it wasn't really a standard term, but I marked "value types" the same way, so that didn't really work. By "copy-only" I meant something you couldn't have more than one reference to: every name (variable) to which you assign the data would have its own independent copy.

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kllrnohj6y ago· 1 in thread

> By "copy-only" I meant something you couldn't have more than one reference to: every name (variable) to which you assign the data would have its own independent copy.

That's not really a requirement of value types, no. C# has value types (structs) and you can have references to them as well (ref & out params).

In general though yes it would be typically copied around, same as an 'int' is. Particularly if Java doesn't add something equivalent to ref/out params.

wool_gatherOP6y ago

I know, that's why I asked for clarification originally. :) Anyways, I appreciate the details.

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