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Reputation: 62876

Is there a way in Mono.Cecil to determine that a MethodDefinition is actually a C# operator without parsing the name?

I want to avoid parsing the name, like op_Equality. Is there another way to determine if the given MethodDefinition is actually an operator?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 29

Answers (1)

Vagaus
Vagaus

Reputation: 4215

Not that I am aware of;

Section I.10.3 of ECMA-335 states:

Operator overloading is described by using the names specified below, and by setting a special
bit in the metadata (SpecialName) so that they do not collide with the user’s name space. A
CLS-compliant producer tool shall provide some means for setting this bit. If these names are
used, they shall have precisely the semantics described here

followed by a list of such special names (for instance for binary operators ).

That said, since all operators need to be marked as specialname it is possible to quick check whether a method definition may be an operator.

Upvotes: 0

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