April 2006 - Posts

• Writing Code Isn't Rocket Science (It's Worse Than That)

  Today, an old joke: Q: What do rocket scientists say when they want to describe a portion of their work as easy? A: "This bit isn't exactly brain surgery." I think that pretty much everyone would agree that rocket science and brain surgery are both intellectually Read More... Posted Monday, April 10, 2006 7:30 AM by Eric Lippert | 17 Comments Filed under: Rants

• Odious ambiguous overloads, part two

  There were a number of ideas in the comments for what we should do about the unfortunate situation I described yesterday . We considered all of these options and more. I thought I might talk a bit about the pros and cons of each. I suggested do nothing Read More... Posted Thursday, April 06, 2006 10:13 AM by Eric Lippert | 7 Comments Filed under: C#, Breaking Changes

• Odious ambiguous overloads, part one

  As you might have gathered, a lot of the decisions we have to make day-to-day here involve potential breaking changes on odd edge cases. Here's another one. Consider the following terrible but legal code: public interface I1<U> { void M(U i); void Read More... Posted Wednesday, April 05, 2006 8:58 AM by Eric Lippert | 9 Comments Filed under: C#, Breaking Changes