Thank you. It's a good way to get genericity. See you,
Pedro
On Sat, Dec 14, 2002 at 10:58:21AM -0500, Jonathan Pryor wrote:
> You can always use System.Array as your function argument, as all array
> types are implicitly convertible to System.Array. Or, you could use
> System.Collections.IList, as System.Array implements IList, and using
> IList allows you to pass in the Collections classes. For example:
>
> using System;
> using System.Collections;
>
> class X {
> public static void Main () {
> Algorithm (new int[]{1, 2, 3, 4, 5});
> Algorithm (new char[]{'a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e'});
> Algorithm (new string[]{"foo", "bar", "baz", "qux"});
> Another (new short[]{2, 4, 6, 8, 10});
> Another (new long[]{10, 20, 30, 40, 50});
> }
>
> private static void Algorithm (Array a) {
> foreach (object o in a)
> Console.WriteLine (o);
> }
>
> private static void Another (IList a) {
> foreach (object o in a)
> Console.WriteLine (o);
> }
> }
>
> Hope this helps...
> - Jon
>
> On Sat, 2002-12-14 at 07:37, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I was making a little program that implements a few generic algorithms
> > for arrays. I decided that the best option was to define the type of the
> > arguments of the methods to "IComparable []" (array of IComparable) but
> > when I call that method with one "int[]" the compiler tells me the
> > following message:
> >
> > error CS0030: Cannot convert type 'int[]' to 'System.IComparable[]'
> >
> > I tried to do the same thing in Java (using Integer[] and Comparable[])
> > and it worked.
> >
> > I think this feature must be in all object oriented languages. In the
> > fact, Java, C++, Eiffel, etc... has the feature.
> >
> > Can anyone tell me how can I make the construction I want ? (int[]
> > inside one IComparable[] to get one generic class).
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Pedro
>
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