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Is a string actually a character array (is-a), or does it have a character array as an internal store (has-a), or is it’s own object which can expose itself as a with an array of characters?
I am more inclined to say it is it’s own object, but then why are we so inclined to always say ‘A string is an array of characters…’?
the .NET string is not just an array of characters. It contains an array of characters, so strictly speaking, it’s has-a.
Moreover, there are a lot of Unicode-related subtleties where it doesn’t behave anything like an array. Concatenating a character may do a lot more than just increase the string length by one, and insert the new character at the end. According to the Unicode normalization rules, it may actually change the entire string. So it is definitely nothing like an array of characters, but somewhere within the class, such an array exists.