What are reference variables?
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What are reference variables?
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Variables holding the reference to an object are called reference variables. The initial value of a reference variable depends on its place of declaration. Class variables and instance variables are initialized with a special null value, whereas variables declared inside code blocks are not automatically initialized.
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