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reference equality

Two references are equal only if they point at the same object.

The default Equals and == for classes compare identity; object.ReferenceEquals always does.

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Examples

  • Two new Customer("ana@example.com") objects of a plain class aren't ==: same data, different objects.

See also

record reference type
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