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Eli Goodwin
29,502 Pointsclasses and multiple assignments in Swift 2.0...
I understand the difference between pass by value and pass by reference. What seems like a bad idea is the example given in the video of creating a new instance of a class and then creating a new variable assignment equal to the new instance eg:
var phoneClass = ProductClass(arguments) var bigPhoneClass = phoneClass
It seems like doing this would cause disaster in more complex projects due to the difficulty of clearly tracking what is modifying memory. What circumstances would provide a justification for this?