The Old New Thing

The scope of the C# checked/unchecked keyword is static, not dynamic

August 15, 2014 Aug 15, 2014 08/15/14

Raymond Chen

C# has operators and to control the behavior of the language in the face of integer overflow. There are also and statements which apply the behavior to blocks of statements rather than single expressions. Why, then, doesn't this code below raise an overflow exception? (Mini-exercise: Why couldn't I have just written ?) The answer ...