ActionScript 2.0 :: Passing Variable To Function By Ref?

If I remember correctly, objects are being passed to functions by reference, so I wrapped my primitive variable into object but did not get the resilt I wanted. I combed this group to see the solution and found only this one:

function changeObjectStatus(obj)
{
return obj.status = true;
}

[Code]....

var v seems to be a new object rather then a reference to the old one. and changing v does not affect the original object.

Does this mean that if I want the function to work with several variables, I need to create a separate object for each variable?