Implicit conversion issue in a ternary condition [duplicate]

Answer 1

The problem is that the right hand side of the statement is evaluated without looking at the type of the variable it is assigned to.

There's no way the compiler can look at

suppressLogging ? new SuppressLogger() : new ConsoleLogger();

and decide what the return type should be, since there's no implicit conversion between them. It doesn't look for common ancestors, and even if it did, how would it know which one to pick.