Using a reference like a value

- [Instructor] Programmers are often used to … being in control of whether the values they assign … to variables are simply values or are … references to existing objects. … However, in C# the decision is made … by the programmer who defined the object, … not by the programmer who instantiates the object … and assigns it to a variable. … This is a common pitfall for those new to C#. … Let's take a look at an example. … If you're not sure whether the object you are using … is a value or a reference type, … you could run in to some errors. … Lets take a look at this example. … In this program we have a class called Person … and each person has a string name … which is initialized with the person constructor. … Inside of the person class we also have … a fictional character struct, … where each fictional character has a fictional name … and we assign that in the constructor. … Lets run this code and see what happens. … So here we get … Rebecca, Rebecca, Harry Potter, Hermione Granger … what does all that mean? …