You can compel the compiler to treat some value as a different type of value, at least if it makes intuitive sense that that should be possible.

你可以控制编译器处理,不同类型的数据，至少我们凭直觉,它应该是可能的。

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OK, but nonetheless, I want to stress we have both a value, yeah, and a type.

好，但是尽管如此，我想要强调我们有了一个值，和一种类型。

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So it does that for us so that you can get away with just knowing the address of the first byte and it will make sure that you know when to stop by including the special value so, in fact, get the string if you type in a three-letter word, we allocate four bytes no matter what because we need an additional byte 0 for this special sentinel value back slash zero at the very end.

它为我们做了这些事情，这样我们就可以,通过第一个字节的地址,它还可以通过包含一个特殊的值,来保证在哪里停止，如果你输入了一个三个字母的单词,就可以获得那个字符串，不管怎样，我们分配四个字节,因为我们在末端需要一个额外的字节,来保存这个特殊的标志值--反斜杠。

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Second thing we saw was, we saw that associated with every primitive value was a type.

我们学习到的第二件事情是，和每个基本值对应的,是一个类型。

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Now what I'm going to try and do is read in a set of values, but I'm going to give a type of value as well as the messages.

现在我要做的是输入一些值,并关注异常,我会输入消息以及一种其他的值。

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