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How are arrays passed to methods in Java?

How are arrays passed to methods in Java? (Computer science one · Multidimensional Arrays) — "In Java, arrays are always passed by reference. Though we did not…

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  • Passing arrays to methods in Java
  • Arrays are always passed by reference.
  • In the particular example, the array contents were not changed.
  • In general, the method could change the array contents.
  • Those changes would be realized in the calling method.
  • There is no mechanism to prevent changes to arrays passed to methods.
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How are arrays passed to methods in Java?

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"In Java, arrays are always passed by reference. Though we did not make any changes to the contents of the passed array in the particular example, in general we could have. Any such changes would be realized in the calling method. Unfortunately, there is no mechanism by which we can prevent changes to arrays when passed to methods."

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