Re: String Reference Type

A string can potentially contain a lot of data, and there's no telling what size a particular string might need to be.

Therefore, not only does it make little sense to try and store a string in a register or on the stack, or anything else you'd do with a value type, strings have always been pointers in traditional languages.

Why would it be a value type?

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Jonathan Wood
SoftCircuits Programming
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"RN1" <rn5a@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:ed9a9b74-a8c9-47f4-ab87-38a6b3234b1c@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
If I am not mistaken, String is reference type. Can someone please
explain me why is it reference type & not value type?

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