Interesting. Did a Google search which turned up this explanation about why it's considered broken: array covariance means runtime type checks rather than comp

Interesting. Did a Google search which turned up this explanation about why it's considered broken: array covariance means runtime type checks rather than compile-time checks, which are more expensive and could hide bugs that could be caught when compiling. (http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ericlippert/archive/2007/10/17/covariance-and-contravariance-in-c-part-two-array-covariance.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ericlippert/archive/2007/10/17/covar...)