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Which part of object-oriented design is the hardest to get right?
A viable candidate for this infamous title is that delicate dance between abstract and concrete types we must go through in every single model we make.
C# has recently been enriched with an important feature that will help us balance abstract and concrete types: the covariant return types. But what is that feature?
In this video, you will learn how method overrides and interface implementations can return a more derived type than their base type specifies. This feature, almost trivial in its form, has a tremendous impact on the overall design. Once impossible, at least without a risky downcast, operating at the level of concrete classes where required and at the level of abstract types where allowed has become a reality.
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Which part of object-oriented design is the hardest to get right?
A viable candidate for this infamous title is that delicate dance between abstract and concrete types we must go through in every single model we make.
C# has recently been enriched with an important feature that will help us balance abstract and concrete types: the covariant return types. But what is that feature?
In this video, you will learn how method overrides and interface implementations can return a more derived type than their base type specifies. This feature, almost trivial in its form, has a tremendous impact on the overall design. Once impossible, at least without a risky downcast, operating at the level of concrete classes where required and at the level of abstract types where allowed has become a reality.
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Join Discord server with topics on C# ► codinghelmet.com/go/discord
Enroll course *Beginning Object-Oriented Programming with C#* ► codinghelmet.com/go/beginning-oop-with-csharp
Subscribe ► youtube.com/channel/UCxsWfh8LCcn55mFB6zGBT1g?sub_confirmation=1
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