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• Why does char convert implicitly to ushort but not vice versa?

  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 Read More... Posted Thursday, October 01, 2009 9:53 AM by Eric Lippert | 17 Comments Filed under: C#, Conversions, integer arithmetic

• Integer Arithmetic In VBScript, Part One

  I've received some questions recently on how integer arithmetic works in VBScript, so I thought I might spend a few entries talking about some low-level bit twiddling topics. Here's one of the mails I got this morning: There seems to be a limitation on Read More... Posted Wednesday, December 01, 2004 12:02 PM by Eric Lippert | 14 Comments Filed under: VBScript, Scripting, modular arithmetic, integer arithmetic