Question

Here’s a small snippet of code, when called it outputs ‘double’. Why? What’s the reasoning behind this. Why doesn’t it print ‘float’?

class source
{

    static void Main()
    {
        Receiver r = new Receiver();


        r.Method1(1.1);
    }

}

class Receiver
{
    public virtual void Method1(double f) { Debug.Print("double"); }
    public virtual void Method1(float f) { Debug.Print("float"); }
}

TIA

Answer 1

To specify float call like this:

r.Method1(1.1f);

Otherwise it’ll default to double, like you observed.

Here’s a porition of the MSDN documentation on double that explains why:

By default, a real numeric literal on
the right-hand side of the assignment
operator is treated as double.