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by Eric Lippert via Fabulous Adventures In Coding on 10/1/2009 7:53:00 PM
Another good question from StackOverflow. Why is there an implicit conversion from char to ushort, but only an explicit conversion from ushort to char? Why did the designers of the language believe that these asymmetrical rules were sensible rules to add to the language?
Well, first off, the obvious things which would prevent either conversion from being implicit do not apply. A char is implemented as an unsigned 16 bit integer that represents a character in a UTF-16 encoding, so it can be conv
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