Hi Jeroen, The C# spec explicitly states that the language does not support static members in interfaces (section 13.2, last sentence of first paragraph after the grammar).
Also note that an interface containing a static method is not CLS compliant, so C# is not required to support them. In particular, you cannot call one. However the .NET Framework v1 implementation (and the SSCLI implementation) doesn't have the most crisply defined outcome in this case (which you've uncovered) and "odd things" occur under in this situation. There's a bug entered against this and the proposed fix would be to simply ignore all static methods in interfaces that it imports. This behavior is consistent with what happens when C# encounters fields in interfaces. John This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. -----Original Message----- From: Jeroen Frijters [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2002 1:10 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: BUG: C# compiler cannot handle interfaces with static methods There are multiple bugs in the C# compiler wrt interfaces that contain static methods: - interfaces containing static methods cannot be implemented (clr\src\csharp\csharp\sccomp\clsdrec.cpp line 5090 should have: if (member->asMETHSYM()->isStatic) continue;) - calls to static methods in interfaces are compiled incorrectly - static methods in implemented interfaces are not visible in the class that implements the interface Regards, Jeroen
