It is possible for a program with some local variable x

bool b = x is FooBar;

to assign true to b at runtime, even though there is no conversion, implicit or explicit, from x to FooBar allowed by the compiler! That is to say that

FooBar foobar = (FooBar)x;

would not be allowed by the compiler in that same program.

Can you create a program to demonstrate this fact?

This is not a particularly hard puzzle but it does illustrate some of the subtleties of the is operator that we’ll discuss in the next episode.