[Mono-list] How do I reference generic classes in C#???

[Sandy Armstrong]

Also, each FooGen<int>, FooGen<float>, etc, is an entirely different 
class, and each class has its own static members.

So if you do FooGen<int>.f = 5, FooGen<float>.f will still be 8.  So be 
careful! :-)

Sandy

On 01/08/2009 11:46 PM, Olexandr Melnyk wrote:
> You need to specify the concrete FooGen you're referring to, as in:
> FooGen<int>.f, FooGen<float>f etc.
>
> On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 9:29 AM, neptune235<muchomuse at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> The following Code Fails:
>>
>> using System;
>>
>> namespace TestGenerics
>> {
>>         //some generic class
>>         public class FooGen<T>
>>         {
>>                 //some static attribute we want to get at
>>                 public static int f = 8;
>>         }
>>         class MainClass
>>         {
>>                 public static void Main(string[] args)
>>                 {
>>                         Console.WriteLine(FooGen.f);
>>                 }
>>         }
>> }
>>
>> This gives me the error: "The name 'FooGen' does not exist in this current
>> context (CS0103)"
>>
>> Yet if I erase the<T>, making FooGen a non-generic class, it works fine. So
>> how do I directly access a generic class?
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