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> Similarly, C# does differentiate between a class and an instance of a class. Both a class and an instance are of a given type, but a class is not an instance
by magicalhippo 9mo ago
> Similarly, C# does differentiate between a class and an instance of a class. Both a class and an instance are of a given type, but a class is not an instance of a class.
Incidentally one of the things I missed from Delphi in C#. In Delphi you can declare
type TWidgetClass = class of TWidget;
Then you can declare variables of TWidgetClass, and assign TWidget or any subclass to such variables, and call class methods using it, like say the constructor.
var widgetClass := TTextWidget;
var myWidget := widgetClass.Create();
After which myWidget holds and instance of TTextWidget. Very handy for factory pattern code, but also other stuff. Of course after C# got generics it alleviated some of this.