I have a question about the implicit type conversion
Why does this implicit type conversion work in C#? I've learned that implicit code usually don't work.
I have a code sample here about implicit type conversion
char c = 'a';
int x = c;
int n = 5;
int answer = n * c;
Console.WriteLine(answer);
The core of @Eric Lippert's blog entry is his educated guess for the reasoning behind this decision of the c# language designers:
"There is a long tradition in C programming of treating characters as integers
-- to obtain their underlying values, or to do mathematics on them."
It can cause errors though, such as:
var s = new StringBuilder('a');
Which you might think initialises the StringBuilder with an 'a' character to start with, but actually sets the capacity of the StringBuilder to 97.