Re: static methods in an interface

Thanks, Peter, for that explanation.

What I was trying to do was to force some classes marked 'internal' in a
project to all support the same methods.  I guess I'll do some rethinking...

Peter


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Discussion relating to the specifics of the C# and
> Managed C++ languages [mailto:[email protected]]
> On Behalf Of Peter Ritchie
> Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2006 4:33 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [DOTNET-CX] static methods in an interface
>
> An interface is a definition of what a class instance should
> make publicly available.  Since an instance is not static,
> you cannot declare static members in an interface.
>
> Also, since static members are not in any virtual table
> because they are not related to any particular instance, you
> cannot make a static member virtual--ergo you cannot mandate
> a class to implement specific static members to fulfil derivation.
>
> On Thu, 24 Aug 2006 15:10:12 -0400, Peter Osucha
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >I have an interface defined with some methods.  I have two
> classes that
> >implement this interface - however, I want the classes to
> implement the
> >methods statically.
> >
> >I tried setting the method definition to 'static' in the
> interface but
> >apparently, that's not allowed (I get an error 'The modifier
> 'static'
> >is
> not
> >allowed for this item').
> >
> >If I just try to use the 'static' modifier in the class that
> implements
> the
> >interface, I get another error telling me that the class does not
> implement
> >the interface method (which doesn't have the 'static'
> modifier).  What
> >is going on here and why am I not allowed to create a
> 'static' method
> >this
> way?
> >How might I accomplish what I am trying to do, please?

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