.Net Type Safety Working with the ternary(conditional) operator in C# I came across an interesting problem. The following piece of code does not compile.


class Cat{}
class Computer{}
......
Object obj = need_a_cat? new Cat():new Computer();
......


The above code fails with an error that " there is no implicit conversion between Cat and Computer". That is correct ;).However still wondering why is a type checking required in the above case.

On the contrary with enums where type checking is expected there is no type checking!


enum Day_Of_Week { sun, mon, tue ....}

String DoSomething(Day_Of_Week day) {
.......
}

....

DoSomething(Day_Of_Week.sun+109);



The above call DoSomething(Day_Of_Week.sun+109); should have failed during compilation. But it doesn't ;)  ¶ 11:38 PM 4 Comments