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Chapter 2 CASE statement topic question (pg 73 )

 
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Hi,

I was working on review question 20 and came across this scenario.
According to the book, " the values in each case statement must be compile-time constant values of the same data type as the switch value" .
Though the switch value type is 'char' and the statement  'case 1' below has value type of int, the program is compiling without any errors. I was expecting it to give a compile error when it encounters case 1.  
What am i missing?  TIA !

 
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In your code and my code, the 1 is autoboxed as a char corresponding to the nonprintable char with numeric value of 1, not '1'. When it is cast back, you can see the value has not changed.
 
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