Can someone explain to me what the reasoning behind passing by “value” and not by “reference” in Java is?

Question

I\'m fairly new to Java (been writing other stuff for many years) and unless I\'m missing something (and I\'m happy to be wrong here) the following is a fatal flaw...

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Answer 1

The problem is you are instantiating a Java reference type. Then you pass that reference type to a static method, and reassign it to a locally scoped variable.

It has nothing to do with immutability. Exactly the same thing would have happened for a mutable reference type.