Re: C# Fundamentals Part 3: ReferenceEquals question

Willy Denoyette [MVP] <willy.denoyette@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
| It prints "true" - meaning that x and y are references to the same
| object, despite them being the results of "new" expressions.

Both x and y are initialzed to an empty string (== String.Empty), which by
itself is an interned string. The result is that x and y are references to
the same string object.

Yes - but this is the only time it ever happens. You can't create a
reference to any other interned string using "new" - and it actually
violates the spec, which says:

<quote>
The new operator implies creation of an instance of a type
</quote>

In this case, no new instance is being created :(

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