Value type and reference type

In certain computer programming languages, data types are classified as either value types or reference types, where reference types are always implicitly accessed via references, whereas value type variables directly contain the values themselves.[1][2]

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  2. ^ Stephens, Rod (2014). C# 5.0 Programmer's Reference. Indianapolis, Indiana: John Wiley & Sons. p. 57. ISBN 978-1-118-84728-2.