Java: For-Each loop and references [duplicate]

Answer 1

I added a comment into each example to clarify what's going on.

First example:

MyObject objects[] = new MyObject[6]; 
for(MyObject o: objects) { 

    // Construct a new object of type MyObject and assign a reference to it into 
    // the iteration variable o. This has no lasting effect, because the foreach
    // loop will automatically assign the next value into the iteration variable
    // in the the next iteration.
    o = new MyObject(); 
} 

Second example:

MyObject objects[] = new MyObject[6]; 
for(int i = 0; i < objects.length; i++) { 

    // Construct a new object of type MyObject and store a reference to it into the
    // i-th slot in array objects[]:
    objects[i] = new MyObject(); 
}