>>>Then, Mr chameleon, let me tell you that was also pi..ed off. Bought a lot of java books (language/assembler/....) and the one thing that turned me off what that in java you cannot pass parameters by reference
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>>So how do you do anything to an object? Every object has to know how to do it to itself, or else it happens to a temporary copy? That sucxques...
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>Not sure what you mean about temporary copies but you may have just described encapsulation. An object (class) defines both data and the operations upon that data.

If not passed by reference, then it's passed as a copy. Whatever happens with that copy gets lost when it goes out of scope and autodestructs.