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CDP1802 wrote:

Classes are reference types, (many) aliases are treated like value types.

int x = new int();
Int32 y = 42;
Console.WriteLine($"{x}, {y}");
// Output: 0, 42

public class ImplicitString
{
    public string Value { get; private set; }
    public ImplicitString(string x)
    {
        Value = x;
    }

    public static implicit operator ImplicitString(string x)
    {
        return new ImplicitString(x);
    }
}

//Use
ImplicitString s = "Hello.";

Forogar wrote:

It all compiles to the same IL code anyway so it was just a matter of style really.

Forogar wrote:

What do you think?

Jon McKee wrote:

They could transparently change int to map to Int64 in the future, for example