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• Calling static methods on type variables is illegal, part three

  There were lots of good comments on my previous entries in this series. I want to address some of them, but first I want to wrap this up by considering how a small change to the scenario makes it plausible to choose a different option. Consider now the Read More... Posted Thursday, June 21, 2007 9:37 AM by Eric Lippert | 8 Comments Filed under: C#, Static Methods

• Calling static methods on type variables is illegal, part two

  Last time I pointed out that static methods are always determined exactly at compile time, and used that fact to justify why static methods cannot be called on type parameter types. But aren’t the type arguments to generics actually determined at compile Read More... Posted Monday, June 18, 2007 7:14 AM by Eric Lippert | 11 Comments Filed under: C#, Static Methods

• Calling static methods on type variables is illegal, part one

  A developer passed along a question from a customer to our internal mailing list for C# questions the other day. Consider the following: public class C { public static void M() { /*whatever*/ } } public class D : C { public new static void M() { /*whatever*/ Read More... Posted Thursday, June 14, 2007 1:24 PM by Eric Lippert | 25 Comments Filed under: C#, Static Methods

• Why are overloaded operators always static in C#?

  A language design question was posted to the Microsoft internal C# discussion group this morning: " Why must overloaded operators be static in C#? In C++ an overloaded operator can be implemented by a static, instance or virtual method. Is there some Read More... Posted Monday, May 14, 2007 2:35 PM by Eric Lippert | 8 Comments Filed under: C#, Static Methods