reference types - new keyword to create its value

I believe some literature is not accurate (mayebe even contains mistakes) or its my fault? Book I currently read says (translation):

To creat开发者_JAVA百科e a value of reference type, new keyword has to be used.

I do not think so - what about delegates? Am I correct or do I understand that text badly?

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Well, it's not always going to be true, no. Some examples:

• String concatenation
• Delegate conversions
• Boxing conversions

Other examples where new won't appear in your source code would include user-defined operators and conversions.

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Delegates are also implicitly created with the new keyword. Behind the scenes, the compiler is generating the necessary code for you. So

MyEvent += SomeMethod;

becomes

MyEvent += new EventHandler(someInstance, SomeMethod);

but it's true, not every time a reference type is created, the new operator is needed. like boxing.

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Delegates are reference to a function, and as you probably know, you don't use the "new" keyword when declaring a function.

but you do use it when declaring an object, like:

MyObject obj = new MyObject();