Hah, just sent a reply stating just that. Thanks. Stephen
On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 2:45 PM, Brent Worden <brent.wor...@gmail.com>wrote: > Actually, funkyChanger will not work because you are effectively > reassigning the argument. Since all arguments in Java are passed by > value, the assignment is not realized by the caller. > > The only ways to get argument changes surfaced to the caller are using > a typed return or passing in an argument whose state can be modified > (and not by assignment). > > As discussed in this thread, one way to accomplish this for primitives > is by using the MutableXxxx types found in Apache Commons Lang. > Another common way is to using a single element array. > > Thanks, > > Brent. >
