[Mono-list] typeof(string)

[Dan Lewis]

 --- Gaurav Vaish <gvaish@iitk.ac.in> wrote:
> : Shouldn't it be:
> : 
> :   if (destinationType == typeof (string)) { ... }
> : 
> : typeof returns an object of class Type, which what you're checking equality
> : against.
> 
>     Thanks Buddy. Lol.
>     I guess, I ought to change my name now.

No problem ;-) By the way, if you really want 'is' operator semantics, you'd
probably best write the following:

  if (typeof (string).IsAssignableFrom (destinationType)) { ... }

But then again I haven't seen too many classes derived from string...

Dan.


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