About Question enthuware.ocajp.i.v7.2.1252 :

[shamran99]

Hi,

I just want to know is arrays the only one will be pass by reference?

Regards,
Shamran.

[admin]

No, in Java, everything is passed by value. But in case of objects (any object, including arrays) it is the value of the reference that is passed by value. It is a very important topic so I will suggest you to go through a good book to understand it. Here are a few good links -

http://javadude.com/articles/passbyvalue.htm
and
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4048 ... s-by-value

[horst1a]

And why does the compiler not put an implicit this before the c in m2()

[admin]

And why does the compiler not put an implicit this before the c in m2()

Because a variable named c is already in scope. The compiler tries using "this" (or the classname to use the static variable) only if it is not able to resolve the given variable. Here, it is already able to resolve c as a method parameter. So there is no need to use "this".

HTH,
Paul.