I stumbled upon this code and don't understand the ^ operator in the string ^name declaration.
I found on google that it is a bitwise XOR operator but can't see the relevance here:
ref class Animal{
int legs;
String ^name;
};
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Jerry Coffin
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6You are looking at C++/CLI (by Microsoft) source code. Where `^` is used to declare reference variables. – Karthik Kalyanasundaram Feb 23 '14 at 02:28
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@BrianBi so it is Visual C++ then – Chris Dobkowski Feb 23 '14 at 02:28
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1@ChrisDobkowski, Visual C++ is a compiler, not a language. It can compile C++/CLI (although this could just as easily be C++/CX if I'm right), but your language tag said C++. – chris Feb 23 '14 at 02:32
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@max-m oh :/ sorry then, should of looked better. I just didn't knew even how it was called. – Chris Dobkowski Feb 23 '14 at 02:32
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1@ChrisDobkowski I found it when googling for "C++ caret" ^^ – max-m Feb 23 '14 at 02:35