I have the following code:
public class Main {
static void swap (Integer x, Integer y) {
Integer t = x;
x = y;
y = t;
}
public static void main(String[] args) {
Integer a = 1;
Integer b = 2;
swap(a, b);
System.out.println("a=" + a + " b=" + b);
}
}
I expect it to print a=2 b=1, but it prints the opposite. So obviously the swap method doesn't swap a and b values. Why?
Answer
This doesn't have anything to do with immutability of integers; it has to do with the fact that Java is Pass-by-Value, Dammit! (Not annoyed, just the title of the article :p )
To sum up: You can't really make a swap method in Java. You just have to do the swap yourself, wherever you need it; which is just three lines of code anyways, so shouldn't be that much of a problem :)
Thing tmp = a;
a = b;
b = tmp;
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