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The Weird and The Wonderful forum is a place to post Coding Horrors, Worst Practices, and the occasional flash of brilliance.

We all come across code that simply boggles the mind. Lazy kludges, embarrassing mistakes, horrid workarounds and developers just not quite getting it. And then somedays we come across - or write - the truly sublime.

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Ankush Bansal5-Jul-12 3:41
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Sentenryu5-Jul-12 3:46
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OriginalGriff5-Jul-12 21:11
mveOriginalGriff5-Jul-12 21:11 
No - because it creates a binary copy of the string content rather than the reference: I have no idea why MS though copying an immutable object would be a necessary thing to do, but there you go1... Copying the reference could stop the GC, provided the reference didn't get dereferenced itself.

1Thinking about it, it could be handy in two cases: if there is ever a ReferenceEquals on the strings, then the copy will be different, and if the string is passed to unmanaged code which messes it up - the later being very, very nasty though. I would hand a StringBuilder instead just for safety.
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GeneralRe: got another codebase to work on... its full of surprises!!! Pin
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GeneralWhat about this gem? Pin
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