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The Weird and The Wonderful forum is a place to post Coding Horrors, Worst Practices, and the occasional flash of brilliance.

We all come across code that simply boggles the mind. Lazy kludges, embarrassing mistakes, horrid workarounds and developers just not quite getting it. And then somedays we come across - or write - the truly sublime.

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GeneralLooking at the very topmost line ... Pin
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GeneralBlessed endian mismatches collide with progress Pin
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Generalimplementing interface method, same signature, from two interfaces Pin
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raddevus wrote:
Oh, and after I posted that, I went back and new'd up a SaveImplementor() and then I couldn't figure out how to call either of those explicit methods.

Hmm... It's got me thinking now.

C#
((IPersist)saveImplementor).Save() // IPersist.Save()
((IStorage)saveImplementor).Save() // IStorage.Save()
If I'm remembering correctly, saveImplementor.Save() raw won't work in the second EII example, you'd have to ALSO have a public int Save() {}. I believe this is because EII implementations are ad-hoc polymorphic, the implementation differs depending on the type-view/cast of the object - as opposed to the standard implicit ones which are parametric polymorphic, so its the same implementation for every type-view/cast of the object.

Honestly it's been a long time since I've seen EII used because of this weird behavior. It makes it so you can have an object that seems to completely change it's class/behavior with a simple cast, AND all that new behavior is completely hidden from all other casts of the SAME object.
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