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<clause number="13.1.5" title="Boxing conversions">
  <paragraph>A boxing conversion permits any <non_terminal where="11.1">value-type</non_terminal> to be implicitly converted to the type object or to any <non_terminal where="11.2">interface-type</non_terminal> implemented by the <non_terminal where="11.1">value-type</non_terminal>. Boxing a value of a <non_terminal where="11.1">value-type</non_terminal> consists of allocating an object instance and copying the <non_terminal where="11.1">value-type</non_terminal> value into that instance. </paragraph>
  <paragraph>Boxing conversions are described further in <hyperlink>11.3.1</hyperlink>. </paragraph>
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