Why strings does not compare references?

Question

I know it is special case but why == between strings returns if their value equals and not when their reference equals. Does it have something to do with overlloading operat

Answer 1

on a string, == compares by value

"Although string is a reference type, the equality operators (== and !=) are defined to compare the values of string objects, not references (7.9.7 String equality operators). This makes testing for string equality more intuitive."

In short, == on strings compares the strings by value, not by reference, because the C# specification says it should.