Why isn’t this object being passed by reference when assigning something else to it?

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If you are familiar with pointers, that’s an analogy you can take. You’re actually passing a pointer, so obj.someProperty would dereference to that property and actually override that, while merely overriding obj would kill off the pointer and not overwrite the object.

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