Can generic types provide methods?

Question

I may be too quick to ask as I have only started the section on generics. What I wonder is if generic types can provide methods 🤔

I do not have a concrete idea, yet. But let's say a method only know what to do but not how. But the type knows how:

void DoSomething<T, A>(T knows, A withWhat) {
// do what DoSomething can do
knows.howToDoIt(withWhat);
// continue ...
}

The idea is to be able to change some details of the method based on the type 🙂

Thank you 🤗💕

Answer 1

Sounds good ....

However unlike C++ you cannot use Specialization in C#.

It’s down to generics, simply put a generic version of class or method for <T> must be the same for all instances.

You can work around by embedding checks within the method but this kind of goes against the grain of generics.

Answer 2

Thank you 🤗💕 Yes, interesting 🤔🙂