Logic and its application to Collections.Generic and inheritance

Question

Everything inherits from object. It\'s the basis of inheritance. Everything can be implicitly cast up the inheritance tree, ie.

object me = new Person();
         


        

Answer 1

The linq workaround is a good one. Another workaround, since you are using type object, is to pass the list as IEnumerable (not the generic version).

Edit: C# 4 (currently beta) supports a covariant type parameter in IEnumerable. While you won't be able to assign directly to a List