Jon,
> In his excellent book Jeffrey Richter says the Microsoft guidelines > recommend operators are accompanied by a friendly public instance method > that calls the operator method internally. For example the suggested CLS > compliant name for operator + is Add. Does anyone know... > > /1/ why the friendly method should be an instance method rather than a > static method? I imagine because it's somewhat "simpler" and more natural to use? > > /2/ why the C# compiler generates a static method called op_Addition for > operator+ rather than the recommended instance method called Add? Because that's the operator itself. IOW, Managed operators are nothing more than static methods with a known name and marked with the specialname metadata attribute in the signature. -- Tomas Restrepo [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can read messages from the DOTNET archive, unsubscribe from DOTNET, or subscribe to other DevelopMentor lists at http://discuss.develop.com.
