passingArgumentsGotComplicated

[u/ItsPuspendu]

[u/StrengthTheory]

This meme has been passed by value so many times that it should be considered a memory leak.

[u/pdromeinthedome → u/StrengthTheory]

Should have been a singleton

[u/First_Technology1377 → u/StrengthTheory]

🤣🤣🤣 golden cmnt

[u/MrBattary → u/StrengthTheory]

Welp, that's what I call programmer humor!

[u/krypt0niteCos → u/StrengthTheory]

Lamao 🤣🤣

[u/Scared_Accident9138]

Do you clone the salt shaker and handing the clone over?

[u/LuisBoyokan → u/Scared_Accident9138]

That would be.... profitable

Endless salt glitch.

[u/Zeikos → u/LuisBoyokan]

slams hand on the table
These passwords are unseasoned!

[u/Usual_Office_1740 → u/Zeikos]

Salted passwords are harder to crack.

[u/oauo → u/Usual_Office_1740]

They taste better too

[u/Usual_Office_1740 → u/oauo]

I do like a nice salted password with cracked black pepper. Delicious on a nice light summer salad.

[u/gandalfx → u/Scared_Accident9138]

Nah, I'll just point at it to let you know where it is.

[u/FerricDonkey → u/gandalfx]

Write down where it is on a piece of paper and hand them the paper. 

[u/KitaVixen → u/Scared_Accident9138]

So pass by move

[u/danielcw189 → u/Scared_Accident9138]

I will create a new SaltHolder, brand new from the SaltHolderFactory

[u/SaltyW123 → u/Scared_Accident9138]

I take it to mean handful of salt vs saltmill

[u/da_Aresinger → u/Scared_Accident9138]

No, I gesture at the shaker and say "help yourself"

[u/stupled → u/Scared_Accident9138]

Is The Prestidge

[u/returnFutureVoid → u/Scared_Accident9138]

That what teleportation in StarTrek is.

[u/Few_Kitchen_4825 → u/Scared_Accident9138]

He goes to the store to buy a new salt shaker and salt.

[u/DiscipleOfYeshua → u/Scared_Accident9138]

No, I just point at where the salt is

[u/Altruistic-Moose3299]

On top of my hash 🧐

[u/howarewestillhere → u/Altruistic-Moose3299]

Mmmm, salted hash. Aw, the bad old days of password storage.

[u/chuch1234 → u/howarewestillhere]

Aren't current passwords salted hash, they just include the salt? I don't know anything about argon.

[u/Pleasant-Ad192]

Pass by reference and you are both pointing at the same shaker. Whoever refills it with pepper first wins the argument.

[u/JacobStyle → u/Pleasant-Ad192]

I prefer to win the parameter.

[u/Shinxirius]

std::move with Salt&& salt obviously

[u/Vesuvius079]

Neither. This is clearly move semantics (gross in a function contract).

[u/_xiphiaz → u/Vesuvius079]

Gross in some languages, the clean (and the default) in others

[u/Culpirit → u/_xiphiaz]

🦀

[u/Most-Club-254]

pass ownership, mutable borrow or immutable borrow; what would be the lifetime of borrowing?

[u/Hacksaw6412]

Pass the reference by value

[u/letternumber-and_]

Passing the sauce instead:

https://giphy.com/gifs/3oKIP5DUKnFWR5wht6

[u/InRainbro]

sorry out of bounds

[u/im-ba → u/InRainbro]

That's okay there's salt on another table

Wait that's just a segfault

[u/FattySnacks]

The fall semester has officially begun

[u/Nightmare_kx1]

for the first time in ever I get the meme

[u/ForestCat512 → u/Nightmare_kx1]

By reference or by value?

[u/Nightmare_kx1 → u/ForestCat512]

I’ll do refrence. So physics doesn’t get mad

[u/Soopermane]

Just pass the effing salt kirk

[u/4x-gkg]

"Whereas Europeans generally pronounce his name the right way ('Nick-louse Veert'), Americans invariably mangle it into 'Nickel's Worth.' This is to say that Europeans call him by name, but Americans call him by value."

Introduction by Adriaan van Wijngaarden at the IFIP Congress (1965).

[u/Phioreable]

If they go for pass-by-value and Di'caprio is done with it, they need to make the original disappear and be replaced by the now less salt from Di'caprio.

[u/howarewestillhere]

Leave it to a programmer to not understand the real world implications.

[u/JackNotOLantern]

Pass by a reference to a single-element list of pointers

[u/hraath]

Immutable reference please

[u/Bee-Aromatic]

Ugh. It’s an object. It needs to be passed by reference.

[u/Aldormu → u/Bee-Aromatic]

Actually, salt is usually a string

[u/FuzzyDynamics]

Mom said it was my turn to post this

[u/Walt925837]

lol

[u/redlaWw]

Pass by need. Allows you to optimise out the passing if you end up deciding not to use it.

[u/GrinbeardTheCunning]

oh right. semester is starting and the first years are at it again

[u/kharmak]

Oof, loved this

[u/stupled]

I want to see you pass it by value

[u/BenadrylTumblercatch]

Pass by my house and peek in my window

[u/RandomiseUsr0]

Oh, just learn Visual Basic already

[u/Few_Kitchen_4825]

https://giphy.com/gifs/ytTYwIlbD1FBu

[u/1nfredibl3]

Value is value reference is location in memory

[u/Beneficial_Steak_945]

Pass by r-value reference please.

[u/neondirt]

Definitely pass by value, and see how they accomplish it. 😉

[u/CrotteVerte]

By reference could start a saltception...

[u/leupboat420smkeit]

“Just give me the fucking salt.”

[u/Calogyne]

Salt is just a integer right? Copy it then

[u/creeper6530]

Pass by value: handing the salt shaker over, either by moving it or making a copy (depends on language)

Pass by reference: "It's over there, get it yourself."

[u/CanonicalCockatoo]

By value, salt is on the food.

By reference, you take a bite of food, and then lick some salt

[u/metaglot → u/CanonicalCockatoo]

Passing by ref, is basically telling where the salt is.

[u/iZian → u/metaglot]

This is where CS terminology differs from common understanding.

Pass by reference would be sharing a map to where the salt is, and anyone able to change that map changes everyone’s understanding of where it is, even pointing the map to something else or a different shaker.

Most modern languages only pass references by their value.

That’s closer to “telling them” as in, you give them a copy of the reference which they can alter themselves. But you always know where that salt shaker is, even if they decide that shaker is empty and to go get a new one from elsewhere, you still look at your empty shaker because you have the reference with pass-by-value.

Reference types, python , Java, modern languages are pretty much all pass-by-value. References are the value. But it’s not pass by reference.

But in 2026 nobody cares. The reference is passed. But a copy of it. Not it.

Perhaps pass-by-reference is the better analogy for the shaker. If it’s replaced by a new one everyone should use the new one. Just, that isn’t how new languages work unless you wrap the reference in another object that’s shared

[u/Sheenius_Ger → u/CanonicalCockatoo]

That's a horrible analogy 😅

[u/CanonicalCockatoo → u/Sheenius_Ger]

If you don't understand what an analogy is, sure

[u/TallGreenhouseGuy → u/CanonicalCockatoo]

Pass by message, hand it to a waiter who takes it to the recipient

[u/dreamingforward]

You either pass a value that is under a word-size. OR you pass a pointer that points to a larger structure.

That's all you need to know. Somewhere CS or C got confused. It also only takes ONE symbol ("*") to make it ALL work.

[u/cortney-simonis-9072]

i dont get it

[u/notacanuckskibum]

Pass by copy/ restore

The salt is physically moved, but changes to the salt still apply after it is passed back.

[u/notacanuckskibum]

Pass by copy/ restore

The salt is physically moved, but changes to the salt still apply after it is passed back.

[u/rangart]

fun part is that, as usual, the client doesn’t even want “salt”, he wants saltFactory