Re: Struct inside class

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Barry Kelly wrote:

The memory for the struct s in this example is part of (i.e. fully
contained within) the heap-allocated object myClass.

OK, I think the same. BUT! In other words myClass.s.i1 is already in
heap, yes? Now - what is boxing? Boxing is creating special packed
version of value-type in heap. In our case i1 ALREADY in heap. So...
object o = myClass.s.i1; //_not_ a boxing here?
???
.

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