Behind every ❗️❗️❗️🚨🚨🚨URGENT🚨🚨🚨❗️❗️❗️ there is a person who’s about to miss a deadline and, instead of working on themselves to prevent that from happening in the future, makes it the developer’s deadline to miss

oopsie daisy moment

By value could be described as, the exact same as you at the time of cloning, but it will be its own object and in no way connected to your actions.

Whereas by reference would be exactly what you described

ok boomer