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Gark Garcia
Gark Garcia

Reputation: 460

C# - Is there a way to constrain two type parameters to be necessarily different?

I'm building a MyClass<T1, T2> : IEnumerable<Tuple<T1, T2>> class, but for it to make any kind of sense in the context of my application I need to ensure that T1 != T2.

Is there a proper way to constrain T1 and T2 so that they aren't the same type?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 121

Answers (1)

Gabriel Luci
Gabriel Luci

Reputation: 40878

If you know what types they should be, you can use the where type constraint:

class MyClass<T1, T2> : IEnumerable<Tuple<T1, T2>>
    where T1 : MyClass1
    where T2 : MyClass2

But there is no way to allow them to be any class, but enforce that they are not equal. You would have to throw an exception in the constructor maybe:

if (typeof(T1) == typeof(T2)) {
    throw new Exception("Types must not be the same.");
}

Upvotes: 2

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