>>>>>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.
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>>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.
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>Most of the types in C# are reference types. There are few value based.

Would I be right to guess that's because they're mostly object types? And the value types are scalar?