From: Gone Sail <gonesail@...>
Date: 2007-09-19T21:55:28+09:00
Subject: Re: The meaning of  a = b  in object oriented languages

Ben Finney wrote:
> Summercool <Summercoolness@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> I just want to confirm that in OOP, if a is an object, then b = a is
>> only copying the reference.
> 
> Whether the language is OO or not has no bearing on this question. The
> semantics of the assignment operator can and do differ between
> languages, orthogonal to whether OOP is involved.


true enough.  the copy mechanism of a language that uses garbage 
collection has no concept of an address .. therefore can only copy the 
reference.
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