Because somebody made a decision to permit that back in the early history of the language.
ahaha, I love that, but fair enough.
Yes, correct, I will probably never need it for real life programming, but I might for the OCA
java 8 exam. i honestly don't remember if I asked it in another
thread -apologies if I did - but is implicit conversion on the exam? A quick glance at the exam's objective doesn't seem to have it on
http://education.oracle.com/pls/web_prod-plq-dad/db_pages.getpage?page_id=5001&get_params=p_exam_id:1Z0-808