The Ever Growing Myth of Passing Objects
Last month, one of my colleagues posed me an intriguing question on passing reference types by “ref”. I am writing this blog post, to share my explanation to a larger set of audience. I have coined the following analogy, to explain the concept of passing reference types. Think that, you are playing with a kite (object) attached to a thread (pointer), and one of your friends also wants to play with the same. Pass By Value You attach an additional thread to the same kite (object), hand it over to your friend and both of you are now playing with the same kite. After a while your friend got bored, detached his thread, and attached it to a new kite (a new object). But, you won’t get affected as your thread is still tied to the old kite. Pass By Reference You hand over one end of the same thread to your friend and both of you are now again playing with the same kite. Again, after a while your friend, got bored of the old kite, detached the thread, and attached it to a ne