Using string constants in implicit conversion
- by kornelijepetak
Consider the following code:
public class TextType {
public TextType(String text) {
underlyingString = text;
}
public static implicit operator String(TextType text) {
return text.underlyingString;
}
private String underlyingString;
}
TextType text = new TextType("Something");
String str = text; // This is OK.
But I want to be able do the following, if possible.
TextType textFromStringConstant = "SomeOtherText";
I can't extend the String class with the TextType implicit operator overload, but is there any way to assign a literal string to another class (which is handled by a method or something)?
String is a reference type so when they developed C# they obviously had to use some way to get a string literal to the class. I just hope it's not hardcoded into the language.
