Assigning a variable of a struct that contains an instance of a class to another variable

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Published on 2011-06-26T22:02:19Z Indexed on 2011/06/27 8:22 UTC
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In my understanding, assigning a variable of a struct to another variable of the same type will make a copy. But this rule seems broken as shown on the following figure. Could you explain why this happened?

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using System;

namespace ReferenceInValue
{
    class Inner
    {
        public int data;
        public Inner(int data) { this.data = data; }
    }

    struct Outer
    {
        public Inner inner;
        public Outer(int data) { this.inner = new Inner(data); }
    }

    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            Outer p1 = new Outer(1);
            Outer p2 = p1;
            Console.WriteLine("p1:{0}, p2:{1}", p1.inner.data, p2.inner.data);


            p1.inner.data = 2;
            Console.WriteLine("p1:{0}, p2:{1}", p1.inner.data, p2.inner.data);


            p2.inner.data = 3;
            Console.WriteLine("p1:{0}, p2:{1}", p1.inner.data, p2.inner.data);

            Console.ReadKey();
        }
    }
}

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