Why c# decimals can’t be initialized without the M suffix?

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The type of a literal without the m suffix is double – it’s as simple as that. You can’t initialize a float that way either:

float x = 10.0; // Fail

The type of the literal should be made clear from the literal itself, and the type of variable it’s assigned to should be assignable to from the type of that literal. So your second example works because there’s an implicit conversion from int (the type of the literal) to decimal. There’s no implicit conversion from double to decimal (as it can lose information).

Personally I’d have preferred it if there’d been no default or if the default had been decimal, but that’s a different matter…

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