[jbluepolarbear]

Boxing is taking a Value Type (struct, int, enum, etc) and converting it to an Object. So Objects aren’t boxed.

[unsafecast]

Apparently we have different definitions of boxing. To me, and I've always used it (and seen it used) like this, a boxed value is a value that's stored on the heap and passed as a pointer. Maybe C# has a different definition?

[steeleduncan]

No, from the C# docs[1] - Boxing is the process of converting a value type to the type object or to any interface type implemented by this value type

[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/programming-g...

[unsafecast]

Right, so then in C# a boxed value is an object as far as I can tell.

[jbluepolarbear]

That’s correct, but not what you said. You said objects are boxed. Values are boxed to create a reference by wrapping it in an object, objects are already reference types so there’s no boxing.

[unsafecast]

I'm not extremely familiar with C# objects, but I think I get the confusion now. My point was that objects are boxed values, and that most things in C# are (to my knowledge) objects. I guess I used slightly the wrong words.