Accelerated C# 2008

CHAPTER 11 ■ GENERICS292

List<Oranges>, you could provide a few different conversion methods to select from, depending on

the circumstances. For example, maybe one of them is highly tuned for an environment with lots of

resources, so it runs faster in those environments. Another version may be optimized for minimal

resource usage but is much slower. At run time, the proper conversion delegate is built to bind to

the conversion method that is logical for the job at hand.

Default Value Expression

Sometimes when working with generic type definitions and generic method definitions, you need

to initialize an object or a value instance of a parameterized type to its default value. Recall that the

default value for a reference is the same as setting it to ...