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Im preparing for a very tricky c# exam and this question popped up while doing so.
I have the following code:
uint zzz = -12u;
-12u is recognized as System.Uint32 literal but it can only be stored in variable of type long. Why is that ?
What it is doing is taking the unsigned int 12 and trying to convert it into a negative value (the
-) which requires a conversion to a type that can handle negative numbers as an unsigned int cannot.Because it is an unsigned int it has possible values outside the range of int, so conversion to a long is required.