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353 PointsHelp they never went over this well they did but not the integration of both one without "" and the other one without ""
What is "6" + 5 = ?
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Steven Parker
231,210 PointsThis is a case of "implicit type conversion".
When the compiler sees a plus sign ("+
") following a string, it recognizes it as the concatenation operator. This operator works on two string values but it finds a number in the place of the second value. So it sees that there is a standard way to convert a number into a string and performs an implicit type conversion, making the number into the string "5". Finally, the concatenation is performed resulting in the string "65".
Benny Ogidan
17,948 PointsBenny Ogidan
17,948 Pointsputting this means 6 is taken as a string and 5 will remain an int, it is concatenated to 5 so the result will be 65