const short value = 0;

You can always resort to the CLR type if you need to

const Int16 value = 0;

>Hi everybody,
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>Quite often when I need to compare, say, two values where one is a constant, I need to put (Int16) in front of that constant to avoid a compile error. I am wondering is there a way to somehow automatically make 0 to be Int16 without explicitly boxing it?
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>Thanks in advance.