>I know. And I realized that, not knowing Java, that my statement may not be true?

Here you are http://www.programmerinterview.com/index.php/java-questions/does-java-have-pointers/


And passing by reference isn't possible either http://stackoverflow.com/questions/40480/is-java-pass-by-reference


Java is always pass-by-value. The difficult thing can be to understand that Java passes objects as references and those references are passed by value.




>>My point is, I don't *have* to.
>>
>>>>Both C# and Java *look* like C/C++. Unlike C/C++, you don't have to deal with f****n pointers.
>>>
>>>You can if you want to :-)