[Mono-bugs] [Bug 74953][Maj] Changed - [GMCS] Converting array to IEnumerable<T>

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Changed by mass at akuma.org.

http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=74953

--- shadow/74953	2005-05-25 13:37:14.000000000 -0400
+++ shadow/74953.tmp.584	2005-06-19 03:56:28.000000000 -0400
@@ -221,6 +221,21 @@
 class A : IComparable <A> {
   int Compare (A) {... }
 }
 
 If I am missing something or I'm simply wrong, then ignore me - I just
 saw this strange statement of yours...
+
+------- Additional Comments From mass at akuma.org  2005-06-19 03:56 -------
+I'll toss my two cents in here as well, since I hit this bug writing tests for the generics code 
+(and may need it fixed for the future)
+
+  Array in 2005b2 does not implement any generic interfaces, this makes sense - to 
+support varying generic interfaces, it would need to be changed into a generic type.
+
+I imagine arrays are special-cased in their runtime so that the types remains the same 
+(child types of Array, inheriting array implementations of interfaces), but also have their 
+interface tables stuffed with an implementation of IList<T>, which includes 
+ICollection<T> and IEnumerable<T>.
+
+I could certainly author a quick C# ArrayList<T> if it helps resolve this bug, but cannot 
+imagine this could be used without some runtime changes.