Why is new String("Hello") invalid in C#?

Question

What is the logic/reason behind making

String s= new String("Hello World");

Illegal in C#? The error is

The best overloaded method match for `string.String(char*)' has some invalid arguments

I'm not interested in the API docs, I am interested in why this is illegal.

Is is because of pooling static strings? like Java pools Integer(-128) to Integer(127) with horrendous results? ( of course strings too )

Answer 1

It would be rather pointless to use the constructor to create a new string based on another existing string - that's why there is no constructor overload that allows this. Just do

string s = "Hello World";