CSC300: Assignment and Parameters with Primitive Types [14/24]

Very Important!

Both assignment, and passing a primitive type value as an argument to a method with a primitive type argument, results in copying the data to a new place in memory.

Modifying the data in the new place in memory does not affect the memory where the data was copied from!

public static void main (String[] args) {
    // Try tracing the execution of method f
    int x = 35;
    int y = x;
    y += 10;
    y = f(y);
}

public static int f(int y) {
    y *= 10;
    return y;
}

Note: The assignment at line 13 has not been done yet!

The variable y in the main program still contains the value it had before f was called.