A general way to convert IFoo to IFoo

Question

I have an interface:

interface IFoo<out T> 
{
   T Get();
}

and some instances like IFoo<int> a, IFoo<User> u, IFoo<string> s and etc. There is a List<IFoo<object>> used to collect them. But variance doesn't work for value types, is there a proper way to put them in the list?

@pst - [Covariance and Contravariance](http://blogs.msdn.com/b/csharpfaq/archive/2010/02/16/covariance-and-contravariance-faq.aspx) — Kobi, Oct 10 '11 at 05:46

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 10 '11 at 05:38

It doesn't look like you need generics for this list, so you can have the interface implement a non-generic interface:

interface IFoo<out T> : IFoo { }

That way, all of your objects implement the same interface. This may not be a bad idea, since they do have something in common. Now you can simply use a List<IFoo>.

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