Re: memory leak or not?

Jon,

My text was not meant as you read it.

I was implying that there was a new object instanced, and not only a new
reference to an existing object.

object A = MyJonObject;
is different from
string A = MyJonObject.ToString();

As it had been a "normal" reference type the object would in my idea not be
garbaged. (As it is not done in this case, to but the created string is
again a new object and that will be garbaged)

Marina was in my idea talking about normal non immutable reference types.
However I can of course not speak for here. Your sample is in my idea an
exception to the standard behaviour..

Cor

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Cor Ligthert [MVP] <notmyfirstname@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Um, just because it's immutable doesn't mean that string isn't a
reference type.

That is exactly why I wrote it.

But you implied that string isn't a reference type. It is. You wrote:

<quote>
The string is immutable what you are showing is not a reference.
</quote>

What I was showing most certainly *is* a reference.

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