Pretending .NET strings are value type

Question

In .NET, strings are immutable and are reference type variables. This often comes as a surprise to newer .NET developers who may mistake them for value type objects due to their

Answer 1

String is a special breed. They are reference type yet used by most coders as a value type. By making it immutable and using the intern pool, it optimizes memory usage which will be huge if it's a pure value type.

More readings here:
C# .NET String object is really by reference? on SO
String.Intern Method on MSDN
string (C# Reference) on MSDN

Update:
Please refer to abel's comment to this post. It corrected my misleading statement.