can someone explain to me why I can mix string with int here

Question

Dear experts,

 

I am stumped by the following code :

 

using System;

/// <summary>
///     Implements overloaded indexers.
/// </summary>
class OvrIndexer
{
    private string[] myData;
    private int         arrSize;

    public OvrIndexer(int size)
    {
        arrSize = size;
        myData = new string[size];

        for (int i=0; i < size; i++)
        {
            myData[i] = "empty";
        }
    }

    public string this[int pos]
    {
        get
       {
            return myData[pos];
        }
        set
       {
            myData[pos] = value;
        }
    }

    public string this[string data]
    {
        get
       {
            int count = 0;

            for (int i=0; i < arrSize; i++)
            {
                if (myData[i] == data)
                {
                    count++;
                }
            }
            return count.ToString();
        }
        set
       {
            for (int i=0; i < arrSize; i++)
            {
                if (myData[i] == data)
                {
                    myData[i] = value;
                }
            }
        }
    }

    static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        int size = 10;
        OvrIndexer myInd = new OvrIndexer(size);

        myInd[9] = "Some Value";
        myInd[3] = "Another Value";
        myInd[5] = "Any Value";

        myInd["empty"] = "no value";

        Console.WriteLine("\nIndexer Output\n");

        for (int i=0; i < size; i++)
        {
            Console.WriteLine("myInd[{0}]: {1}", i, myInd[i]);
        }

        Console.WriteLine("\nNumber of \"no value\" entries: {0}", myInd["no value"]);
    }
}

 How come myDate = new String[size] ?

 

and then size can become an integer again in the for-loop that comes next...

 

Just can't see the logic behind.

 

Hope someone can help me out on that .

 

Tks.