Transfer NULL to the constructor
Solution 1:
But I can not understand why no object? It's also a reference type?
Yes, both double[]
and object
are reference types, so null
is implicitly convertible to both of them. However, member overloading generally favours more specific types, so the double[]
constructor is used. See section 7.5.3 of the C# specification for more details (and boy are there a lot of details).
In particular, from section 7.5.3.5:
Given two different types T1 and T2, T1 is a better conversion target than T2 if at least one of the following holds:
- An implicit conversion from T1 to T2 exists, and no implicit conversion from T2 to T1 exists
That's the case here, where T1
is double[]
and T2
is object
. There's an implicit conversion from double[]
to object
, but no implicit conversion from object
to double[]
, so double[]
is a better conversion target than object
.
If you want force the use of the object
constructor, just cast:
D myD = new D((object) null);
Solution 2:
Basically, double[]
is an object
, but all object
s are not double[]
s. As double[]
's the more specific option, the compiler chooses it, as the most specific one.
Solution 3:
Consider this:
double[] d = new double[] {};
Console.WriteLine(d is object);//output is True
double[] d is an object.
So consider this:
object z = new object[] {};
Console.WriteLine(z is double[]);//output is False
object[] z are not double[]. There is no implicit conversion from object to double[].