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Call By Reference is a technique where arguments that are passed into a procedure or function are the actual memory resident values from the calling procedure. When the value of an argument passed by reference is changed in the child procedure, the value of the argument in the parent procedure is also changed, since technically they are the same arguement. | '''Call By Reference''' or '''Pass By Reference''' is a technique where arguments that are passed into a [[procedure]] or [[function]] are the actual memory resident values from the calling procedure. When the value of an argument passed by reference is changed in the child procedure, the value of the argument in the parent procedure is also changed, since technically they are the same arguement. | ||
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