Re: Defining Static Members in an Interface

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Bruce Wood <brucewood@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> (Notwithstanding this I had a surreal experience recently in which
> Visual Studio was allowing me to refer to static methods in a parent
> class using the child class's class name. I'm still wondering what
> happened there: that's not supposed to be allowed.) :-/

Yes it is - i.e. you can use UnicodeEncoding.ASCII, even though the
ASCII property is declared in Encoding.

The first part of member lookup is:

<quote>
First, the set of all accessible (§10.5) members named N declared in T
and the base types (§14.3.1) of T is constructed.
</quote>

I think it's a bad idea to refer to a static member via a derived type
name, but it's legal.

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