[Mono-dev] TextReader, TextWriter and IDisposable

[Leszek Ciesielski]

Hi,

when I tested my vs2005 projects against xbuild, I found an annoying
bug. My 2.0 code did not  compile. I attach a snippet, alongs with
comments. It seems that 1.0 TextReader/Writer did not implement
IDisposable (or implemented it explicitly), although I cannot find
this info on msdn (there is only a note that their Dispose() methods
are new in 2.0). However, as I compiled with gmcs, the error still
arose:

error CS0122: `System.IO.TextReader.Dispose(bool)' is inaccessible due
to its protection level

this time only with TextReader.

First: it's a glitch in TextReader (it implements the interface
explicitly, so the object is only disposable when cast to
IDisposable), it's Dispose() implementation should be changed to this
of TextWriter, this is also visible on class status pages.

Second: isn't this also a small problem with the compiler? Why does it
complain about Dispose(bool), when I only reference Dispose() in my
code?

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