Coercion does not imply copy?!?

[LAVA 1.0 Content]

While answering a Q on the Dark Side, Christian Altenbach could not definatively explain why coercion dots were shown or not shown in the sample code. So I asked an NI-App Eng to figure out what was happening.It took him somethime but he has replied and has said some note-worthy things.

• "hidden" coercion
  
• sub-string
  
• Coercion does not imply copy
  

...are some of the terms and ideas I think he has reported.

If inteested see this thread from the Dark Side.

Ben

[Aristos Queue]

I read the post, and I think I'm missing something...

are there any differences between the top chunk of diagram and the bottom chunk of diagram other than the branched wire on String 3? Is "String (typedef)" a different typedef than "String (typedef) 2" ?