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So how well do you think you know C#?

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  • L leppie

    Without compiling the following code, what will be the result, if run?

    class Program
    {
    static void Main(string[] args)
    {
    object r = Foo(true);
    Console.WriteLine(r.GetType());
    Console.ReadLine();
    }

    static object Foo(bool e)
    {
    return e ? 0 : 0.0;
    }
    }

    Now compile and run the code? Are you surprised? If so, try figure it out, if not, then kudos to you :)

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    piyush7419820
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    it will throw null exception.

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    • M Mustafa Ismail Mustafa

      Gary Wheeler wrote:

      double, and I'd be surprised pissed off if it were anything else...

      I stand corrected :)

      Gary Wheeler wrote:

      (I'm in the process of learning C#)

      From what I remember, you're a C++er. Don't worry, you'll pick it up in no time flat, but you'll hate some stuff. const comes as a[n unpleasant] surprise and so do reflection issues. All in all, its a nice language :)

      Don't forget to vote if the response was helpful


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      Gary Wheeler
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      Mustafa Ismail Mustafa wrote:

      From what I remember, you're a C++er.

      Yes indeed. My portion of our next product (the UI) will be written in C#, since we have a requirement to use some WPF controls supplied by another group. Now, I've got a couple thousand pages of books to read to get started :).

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      • L leppie

        Without compiling the following code, what will be the result, if run?

        class Program
        {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
        object r = Foo(true);
        Console.WriteLine(r.GetType());
        Console.ReadLine();
        }

        static object Foo(bool e)
        {
        return e ? 0 : 0.0;
        }
        }

        Now compile and run the code? Are you surprised? If so, try figure it out, if not, then kudos to you :)

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        IronScheme - 1.0 alpha 4a out now (29 May 2008)

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        PIEBALDconsult
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        Yeah, makes sense to me, the ternary operator isn't allowed to return different types, so the int is implicitly cast to double, just as expected. Of course I had to add System. to the Console methods to get it to compile...

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        • P PIEBALDconsult

          Yeah, makes sense to me, the ternary operator isn't allowed to return different types, so the int is implicitly cast to double, just as expected. Of course I had to add System. to the Console methods to get it to compile...

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          BoneSoft
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          Personally, I'm always using my System. ;P


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          • J Jorgen Sigvardsson

            Smart? Nah, I give experience credit for this. Also, if you think about it, it has to be this way. Numbers aren't that different from objects in OOP. I think this code makes it more apparent: (boolval ? new Car() : new AirPlane()).Fly();Since C# is statically typed, method selection can't be left to runtime binding. :)

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            Artiom Chilaru
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            In this case to be able to compile it you'll have to manually cast both objects to a base class, that has a Fly() methods :) While in the example of "? 0 : 0.0" the compiler does implicit casting

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            • L leppie

              Without compiling the following code, what will be the result, if run?

              class Program
              {
              static void Main(string[] args)
              {
              object r = Foo(true);
              Console.WriteLine(r.GetType());
              Console.ReadLine();
              }

              static object Foo(bool e)
              {
              return e ? 0 : 0.0;
              }
              }

              Now compile and run the code? Are you surprised? If so, try figure it out, if not, then kudos to you :)

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              IronScheme - 1.0 alpha 4a out now (29 May 2008)

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              cepi69
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              I would suggest you to read the "CLR via C#" book, by Jeffery Richter. ;P

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              • L leppie

                Without compiling the following code, what will be the result, if run?

                class Program
                {
                static void Main(string[] args)
                {
                object r = Foo(true);
                Console.WriteLine(r.GetType());
                Console.ReadLine();
                }

                static object Foo(bool e)
                {
                return e ? 0 : 0.0;
                }
                }

                Now compile and run the code? Are you surprised? If so, try figure it out, if not, then kudos to you :)

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                IronScheme - 1.0 alpha 4a out now (29 May 2008)

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                Alan Balkany
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                D'ohh! My answer was: "System.Int32". (At least I'm being honest!) Although I haven't tested it, in retrospect it makes sense that the two conditional values should be the same type. Good quiz leppie!

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                • P PIEBALDconsult

                  Yeah, makes sense to me, the ternary operator isn't allowed to return different types, so the int is implicitly cast to double, just as expected. Of course I had to add System. to the Console methods to get it to compile...

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                  chaiguy1337
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                  Yeah this has caught me a few times, usually with a compile-time error. Kind of annoying.

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                  • L leppie

                    Without compiling the following code, what will be the result, if run?

                    class Program
                    {
                    static void Main(string[] args)
                    {
                    object r = Foo(true);
                    Console.WriteLine(r.GetType());
                    Console.ReadLine();
                    }

                    static object Foo(bool e)
                    {
                    return e ? 0 : 0.0;
                    }
                    }

                    Now compile and run the code? Are you surprised? If so, try figure it out, if not, then kudos to you :)

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                    Roger Wright
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                    leppie wrote:

                    compile and run the code

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                    • L leppie

                      Without compiling the following code, what will be the result, if run?

                      class Program
                      {
                      static void Main(string[] args)
                      {
                      object r = Foo(true);
                      Console.WriteLine(r.GetType());
                      Console.ReadLine();
                      }

                      static object Foo(bool e)
                      {
                      return e ? 0 : 0.0;
                      }
                      }

                      Now compile and run the code? Are you surprised? If so, try figure it out, if not, then kudos to you :)

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                      W i N D
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                      The compiler's said test.cs(6,5): error CS0103: The name 'Console' does not exist in the current context test.cs(7,5): error CS0103: The name 'Console' does not exist in the current context because you aren't import System namespace or use full name like 'System.Console'

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                      • L leppie

                        Without compiling the following code, what will be the result, if run?

                        class Program
                        {
                        static void Main(string[] args)
                        {
                        object r = Foo(true);
                        Console.WriteLine(r.GetType());
                        Console.ReadLine();
                        }

                        static object Foo(bool e)
                        {
                        return e ? 0 : 0.0;
                        }
                        }

                        Now compile and run the code? Are you surprised? If so, try figure it out, if not, then kudos to you :)

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                        IronScheme - 1.0 alpha 4a out now (29 May 2008)

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                        User 4366736
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                        The Foo method is expecting a reference type (object), but it is getting a value type, probably double. Now the question is, does C# convert the value type to a reference type (boxing)? The reference type would be converted to a Nullable (double?), I don't think so. I don't think it will return a compile error. So I believe it will result in a runtime error (don't know what it would be). I'll run it after this post and see. Tony

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                          The Foo method is expecting a reference type (object), but it is getting a value type, probably double. Now the question is, does C# convert the value type to a reference type (boxing)? The reference type would be converted to a Nullable (double?), I don't think so. I don't think it will return a compile error. So I believe it will result in a runtime error (don't know what it would be). I'll run it after this post and see. Tony

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                          User 4366736
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                          Interesting, the base type of the Double is a System.ValueType, and it's base type is System.Object. Yes, I am surprised. Thanks for the puzzle.

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                          • J Jorgen Sigvardsson

                            Double I would imagine due to this: return e ? 0 : 0.0;. The thing with this if-expression, is that the true and false types must be of same or assignable types. In this case an int can be cast into a double, but not vice versa. Because of this, the compiler will promote the 0 to a 0.0, hence double.

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                            Blumen
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                            Hi, I ran this code and irrespective of what the parameter to foo() is, the output is system.Double

                            Jörgen Sigvardsson wrote:

                            The thing with this if-expression, is that the true and false types must be of same or assignable types. In this case an int can be cast into a double, but not vice versa. Because of this, the compiler will promote the 0 to a 0.0, hence double.

                            I din't get this, could you explain this please? Regards, Blumen

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                            • B Blumen

                              Hi, I ran this code and irrespective of what the parameter to foo() is, the output is system.Double

                              Jörgen Sigvardsson wrote:

                              The thing with this if-expression, is that the true and false types must be of same or assignable types. In this case an int can be cast into a double, but not vice versa. Because of this, the compiler will promote the 0 to a 0.0, hence double.

                              I din't get this, could you explain this please? Regards, Blumen

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                              Jorgen Sigvardsson
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                              If we remodel the if-expression as a function, it could be written like this: T if-expr(bool, T trueExpression, T falseExpression). T is an implicit type generic parameter of sorts. The compiler will at compile time determine what it is. T will not be determined based on what is receiving it. When the compiler sees int var = boolExpr ? trueExpr : falseExpr, it will not try to deduce that T is an int. The compiler will however examine the types of trueExpression and falseExpression. In the original post, we had int and double. Because we said earlier that trueExpression and falseExpression must be of same type T, the compiler must choose between the two types without losing information. An int can "fit inside" a double, but a double can't fit inside an int. Thus the compiler selects T as being double. Since T was chosen to be double, the return type of the entire expression becomes T.

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                              • J Jorgen Sigvardsson

                                If we remodel the if-expression as a function, it could be written like this: T if-expr(bool, T trueExpression, T falseExpression). T is an implicit type generic parameter of sorts. The compiler will at compile time determine what it is. T will not be determined based on what is receiving it. When the compiler sees int var = boolExpr ? trueExpr : falseExpr, it will not try to deduce that T is an int. The compiler will however examine the types of trueExpression and falseExpression. In the original post, we had int and double. Because we said earlier that trueExpression and falseExpression must be of same type T, the compiler must choose between the two types without losing information. An int can "fit inside" a double, but a double can't fit inside an int. Thus the compiler selects T as being double. Since T was chosen to be double, the return type of the entire expression becomes T.

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                                Blumen
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                                Jörgen Sigvardsson wrote:

                                If we remodel the if-expression as a function, it could be written like this: T if-expr(bool, T trueExpression, T falseExpression). T is an implicit type generic parameter of sorts. The compiler will at compile time determine what it is.

                                I din't understand this because I'm not good with Generics yet. But I understood that if types to be compared are different, compiler makes a choice such that there is no loss of data, I hope I'm correct here. Vielen Dank :)

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                                  Jörgen Sigvardsson wrote:

                                  If we remodel the if-expression as a function, it could be written like this: T if-expr(bool, T trueExpression, T falseExpression). T is an implicit type generic parameter of sorts. The compiler will at compile time determine what it is.

                                  I din't understand this because I'm not good with Generics yet. But I understood that if types to be compared are different, compiler makes a choice such that there is no loss of data, I hope I'm correct here. Vielen Dank :)

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                                  Jorgen Sigvardsson
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                                  Exactly. A common denominator. :)

                                  Blumen wrote:

                                  Vielen Dank

                                  Bitteschön :)

                                  -- Kein Mitleid Für Die Mehrheit

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                                  • L leppie

                                    Without compiling the following code, what will be the result, if run?

                                    class Program
                                    {
                                    static void Main(string[] args)
                                    {
                                    object r = Foo(true);
                                    Console.WriteLine(r.GetType());
                                    Console.ReadLine();
                                    }

                                    static object Foo(bool e)
                                    {
                                    return e ? 0 : 0.0;
                                    }
                                    }

                                    Now compile and run the code? Are you surprised? If so, try figure it out, if not, then kudos to you :)

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                                    IronScheme - 1.0 alpha 4a out now (29 May 2008)

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                                    Elias Haileselassie
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                                    class Program
                                    {
                                    static void Main(string[] args)
                                    {
                                    object r = Foo(true); //also check for Foo(false);
                                    Console.WriteLine(r.GetType());
                                    Console.ReadLine();
                                    }
                                    static object Foo(bool e)
                                    {
                                    return e ? (object)0 : (object)0.0;
                                    }
                                    }

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