>>Frank,
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>>I think we do not disagree at all. I always deliberately write 'object reference variable', thus making clear that an O-type variable is always merely a reference to the object, not the object itself.
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>>I already explained to Dragan that he kind of mixed up me and Naomi when he started to talk about object referencing. When you go back in the thread, you will see that I pointed out to Naomi that it is, normally speaking, better not to change the value of a passed variable. This is also true for variables that refer to an object.
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>Sorry for hijacking the thread, but we have achieved a great thing here: it's much clearer now in MY head :). And if we helped clear it up for anyone else, the better.
You didn't hijack the thread, Dragan, as I hopefully already made clear. Hijacking is a deliberate, malicious act, as I see it. Besides, if we'd regard this as hijacking, then 98 percent of all threads are hijacked.
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