Reference of returned object?

Question

If I have a class as follows:

class MyClass
{
   List<String> list{get;set;} 
...
}

And then execute:

MyClass instance = new MyClass();
instance.add('string') ;

Will that new entry in the list be added to the member variable instance?

Answer 1

No. What you trying to do should be more like

 class MyClass{
    public List<String> list{get;set;} 
 }

and then execute

 MyClass instance = new MyClass();
 instance.list.add('string');