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[When I tried posting this there was an error, I apologize if this is a
duplicate.]

Something I found surprising this week involves the IEnumerable<Tin terface.
I have a class that I wrote a couple of years ago which implements the
IEnumerable interface. This week I realized it should implement
IEnumerable<T>.

But when I changed the return type of the GetEnumerator method the compiler
said the class no longer implemented IEnumerable.

IEnumerable<Tha s IEnumerable as a base interface, so I had assumed that
implementing IEnumerable<Two uld satisfy IEnumerable as well. After some
time wrestling with this I finally tried implementing both interfaces
explicitly even though both do the same exact thing:

IEnumerator<TIE numerable<T>.Ge tEnumerator ...
IEnumerator IEnumerable.Get Enumerator ...

Much to my surprise, it works.

While I realize that inheritance and IS_A don't apply to interfaces, this
seems counter-intuitive; shouldn't a method that returns IEnumerable<T>
satisfy IEnumerable?

Aug 4 '08 #1
1 2018
On Sun, 03 Aug 2008 17:31:07 -0700, PIEBALD
<PI*****@discus sions.microsoft .comwrote:
[...]
While I realize that inheritance and IS_A don't apply to interfaces, this
seems counter-intuitive; shouldn't a method that returns IEnumerable<T>
satisfy IEnumerable?
C# doesn't have return-type covariance (it's missing lots of other kinds
of variance too...IMHO the language mostly benefits from that, because it
keeps things simple).

There are languages in which what you tried would work. But in C# you
have to be explicit about it. Fortunately, it's as simple as just having
one of your GetEnumerator() methods return the other.

Pete
Aug 4 '08 #2

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