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by Eric Lippert via Fabulous Adventures In Coding on 4/9/2009 3:50:00 PM
Here’s an interesting question I got the other day:
If you have an overloaded operator == then any call to the operator method is “early bound” at compile time according to the compile-time types of the operands. But calling Equals() on an object is a virtual call; the actual method called is bound at runtime according to the runtime type of the receiver. This difference seems weird to me. What’s the relevant design principle here?
The short answer is that language designers and framewo
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