C# 0 The Complete Reference

PART I

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PART IPART I

to

WriteLine( )

, notice that 

y

 is used by itself. Both 

Write( )

 and 

WriteLine( )

 can be used to 

output values of any of C#’s built-in types.

One more point about declaring variables before we move on: It is possible to declare 

two or more variables using the same declaration statement. Just separate their names by 

commas. For example, 

x

 and 

y

 could have been declared like this:

int x, y; // both declared using one statement

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C# 3.0 includes a new feature called an 

implicitly typed variable

. Implicitly typed 

variables are variables whose type is automatically determined by the compiler. Implicitly typed 

variables are discussed in Chapter 3.