Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.albasani.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx04.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Aatu Koskensilta Newsgroups: comp.lang.javascript Subject: Re: call by reference Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 05:13:54 +0300 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 21 Message-ID: <8762dqdc4d.fsf@uta.fi> References: <97d44dea-bfe6-4300-bd31-31c78103a9d7@er9g2000vbb.googlegroups.com> <37mpm7t5g4or5h5n14sbf7p66p44bv0obe@4ax.com> <87ehsfcfie.fsf@uta.fi> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="mkDZK8dQ1WnTK6GuXhuzxQ"; logging-data="13679"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19HrjPOgjWtsTqBb5QXsUIe" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:XAJJTx8X251HzrFTyP/W97yltyw= sha1:/DK7mzJMYCesmFpQfV6njdFBGLM= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.javascript:13077 Gene Wirchenko writes: > On Mon, 26 Mar 2012 22:46:01 +0300, Aatu Koskensilta > wrote: > >> In general it's not possible to pass an object as an argument for a >>function in Javascript, by reference or otherwise. What is possible is >>to pass by value a reference to an object. > > "In general"? How is it *ever* possible to pass an object by > reference? I can not think of a way. If there is one, I would really > like to know. As mentionted in this thread, apparently the arguments object is passed by reference. -- Aatu Koskensilta (aatu.koskensilta@uta.fi) "Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, darüber muss man schweigen." - Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus