Popular misconceptions about C #

This article is a detailed commentary on another article . Usually I walk by, but now for some reason I was hurt.





That article was a near-perfect collection of misconceptions in a vacuum. Moreover, they (misconceptions) are quite popular and are constantly found in various blogs and collections of "99 interview questions", "how to get an interview for a junior" or in this case "C # cheat sheet".





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16.4.2 Value semantics





- A variable of a struct type directly contains the data of the struct, whereas a variable of a class type contains a reference to an object that contains the data…





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struct Node
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With classes, it is possible for two variables to reference the same object…





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10.2.5 Value parameters

A parameter declared without a ref or out modifier is a value parameter.





10.2.6 Reference parameters

A parameter declared with a ref modifier is a reference parameter.





10.2.7 Output parameters

A parameter declared with an out modifier is an output parameter.





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9.2.5 The string type

The string type is a sealed class type that inherits directly from object. Instances of the string class represent Unicode character strings.

Values of the string type can be written as string literals (Β§7.4.5.6).

The keyword string is simply an alias for the predefined class System.String





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15.5.3.1 General When a field-declaration includes a readonly modifier, the fields introduced by the declaration are readonly fields. Direct assignments to readonly fields can only occur as part of that declaration or in an instance constructor or static constructor in the same class.





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15.5.3.3 Versioning of constants and static readonly fields

Constants and readonly fields have different binary versioning semantics. When an expression references a constant, the value of the constant is obtained at compile-time, but when an expression references a readonly field, the value of the field is not obtained until run-time.





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15.13 Finalizers

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"destructor". Experience has shown that the term "destructor" caused confusion and often resulted to incorrect expectations, especially to programmers knowing C++. In C++, a destructor is called in a determinate manner, whereas, in C#, a finalizer is not. To get determinate behavior from C#, one should use Dispose. end note]





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An instance becomes eligible for finalization when it is no longer possible for any code to use that instance. Execution of the finalizer for the instance may occur at any time after the instance becomes eligible for finalization (Β§8.9).





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And yes, this was also already on HabrΓ© , with a bunch of comments.





PS: and it just so happened that today such a detailed article (18+) was posted on HabrΓ© !






It seems that everything is under the article. I obviously forgot something, or wrote it wrong, but there are comments for this, let it be a shit!








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