Patrick Cooney's Weblog

2004-01-26

After playing around with gpcp recently, I decided to read John Gough's Compiling for the .NET Common Language Runtime again. I found something interesting in there that I missed the first time around: interfaces can implement static methods and fields. This appears to be another interesting feature that is not supported by mainstream msft languages, but is available. The IL looks like:

.class public interface InterfaceWithStatic {

	.method public static void StaticMethod() cil managed {
		ldstr "hello from static method on interface"
		call void [mscorlib]System.Console::WriteLine(string)
		ret
	}

}

So this makes it on to my list of .NET party tricks, along with global methods and throwing non-exception types.

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