Question

Is that .NET related? It appears to be a pointer of some sort, what is the difference?

Edit:

I actually know it is the XOR operator, but look at this example from this page.

void objectCollection() {     using namespace System::Collections;      ArrayList ^as = gcnew ArrayList;      //...  } 

What is this?

Thanks.

Answer 1

I’m assuming that you’re looking at constructs of the form:

Foo ^bar = gcnew Foo(); 

You’re right, in .NET it is a pointer-‘like’ type and is part of C++/CLI, not but not standard ISO C++.

It’s a reference to a garbage-collected, managed .NET object as opposed to a regular, unmanaged C++ object.

As the other poster suggest, outside the .NET world or in a non-object creation context, it is the XOR operator.