Mega Code Archive
0104 ref and out modifiers and method overloading
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ref and out modifiers are part of the method signature.
class Math
{
int add(int i, int j)
{
return i + j;
}
int add(ref int i, ref int j){
return i + j;
}
}
ref and out cannot coexist
class Math
{
int add(out int i, out int j)
{
return i + j;
}
int add(ref int i, ref int j){
return i + j;
}
}
Compile time error:
C:\g>csc Program.cs
Microsoft (R) Visual C# 2010 Compiler version 4.0.30319.1
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
Program.cs(9,9): error CS0663: Cannot define overloaded method 'add' because it
differs from another method only on ref and out
Program.cs(5,9): (Location of symbol related to previous error)
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