Types in C#: An Overview
Before we begin our discussion of the various types found in C#, we need to clarify what a type is and its significance in C#.
What Is a Type?
In our everyday language, the word type usually signifies a number of persons or items sharing one or more particular characteristics. This often causes a group of people of the same type to be regarded as a more or less precisely defined group.
In C#, all values belonging to a specific type can be said to share a set of predefined characteristics.
Important characteristics for a variable of a simple type are the values that can be represented, its internal memory requirements, and its predefined behavior when applied in various computations. For example, each variable of type ...
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