• mozingo@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    This sure looks like C#. I use typeof every once in a while when I want to check that the type of a reference is a specific type and not a parent or derived type. But yea, really not that often.

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      7 months ago

      It can’t be actual C#, but it does look like it.

      If you declare a class Pie<T>{} then attempt to call typeof(Pie<T>) or typeof(T) it won’t even build because you failed to specify what type T is. typeof(Pie<object>) would work but that just returns “Pie1[System.Object]”.

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        7 months ago

        I have used typeof(T) inside the generic class, so fx a function inside the class Pie where T can be refered. But out of context, if you were to call typeof(T) inside Program.cs’s main function, it would not work.

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          7 months ago

          Yeah, but to do that you’d need an instantiated instance of the Pie class, which would answer in the context of the generic type parameter, not the whole Pie class.

          This is too funny. Everyone here, me included, is profoundly overthinking this, lol.