About the "^" sign

[shadowman]

Hi,
I have a piece of code that I am looking and I am seeing the " ^ " sign widely in that code. It is not used as an XOR operator by the way. It is used for variable declarations. Here is an example:

String^ name;

[z05DSL3A]

The This is from C++/CLI^[1] not C++. It is "handle" to a .net reference type.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%2B%2B/CLI

[shadowman]

thx