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| <!doctype html> | |
| <html lang="en"> | |
| <head> | |
| <meta charset="UTF-8"> | |
| <title>Document</title> | |
| </head> | |
| <body> | |
| <script type="text/javascript"> | |
| function setHealth(obj) { | |
| obj.hp = 100; | |
| //obj = new Object(); | |
| //obj.hp = 50; | |
| } | |
| var Player1 = new Object(); | |
| setHealth(Player1); | |
| alert("Avatar starts with HP: " + Player1.hp); //Player1's hp = 100; | |
| </script> | |
| </body> | |
| </html> |
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This always alerts "Avatar starts with HP: 100". If we leave lines 12-13 commented seems a lot like pass by reference, however in the case that they are uncommented we are reassigning obj which creates a new object in memory but it doesn't persist outside of the function scope. Pass by value?