Re: ref?

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<ForrestPhoto@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
What i don't understand is, in c#, it always uses reference by i thought,
or is it only refs on classes?

Memory is allocated on the stack and the heap; this translates to
primitive "value types" and "reference types."

No, it doesn't.

See http://www.pobox.com/~skeet/csharp/memory.html

An integer or boolean is stored by value, whereas instances of
classes are created with the new keyword and then managed by
reference, where in your code you have to variables that are both
references to the same object in memory, and when one makes a change,
the other will see it.

Counter-intuitively, though, structs are value types. So if you use "x
= y;" in your code you're cloning the values, not using two pointers to
the same location.

Why is that counter-intuitive for you, out of interest?

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