Why is it impossible to declare extension methods in a generic static class?

Question

I\'d like to create a lot of extension methods for some generic class, e.g. for

public class SimpleLinkedList where T:IComparable

Answer 1

Just a thought, but is there any reason you can't just derive from this class and add the extra methods to the specialization rather than writing a suite of extension methods? I am sure you have your reasons but just throwing that out there.