In this website I read the following code which I think is wrong:

string s = "Geeks";
 
Type a1 = typeof(string);
 
Type a2 = s.GetType();
 
Console.WriteLine(a1 == a2);

//output: True

Now, please correct me if I am wrong because I am new in C#.

1. "Geeks" is a string object.
2. typeof(string) returns a Type object.
3. s.GetType() returns a Type object.
4. a1 and a2 are reference type variables of datatype Type.

So a1==a2 should be a referential comparison and should return false since there are two different Type objects.

CodePudding user response：

Although that is true for general reference types, one can overload the equality operator to compare the contents instead.

System.Type has such an overload

Furthermore, like System.Object.GetType states:

For two objects x and y that have identical runtime types, Object.ReferenceEquals(x.GetType(),y.GetType()) returns true.

CodePudding user response：

String type just implements custom equality comparison operators. Any class can do that and overrides "==". (and also other equality operators). so as you can see it behaves "like value-type".

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