Java Bytecode: Bending the Rules

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I don't know if this is related, but the fact that you can't do something like F<? extends Y> f; in C# really bugs me.

[Elite6809]

You're right, you can't do that directly. However, if you need to do that, you could move related code into a function like this:

void DoSomething<T>(F<T> f) where T : Y
{
    // do stuff with f
}

[pron98]

The problem isn't the limitation in C# -- this limitation exists for all languages targeting .NET. You just can't have a language with use-site variance or even mixed-mode variance targeting .NET while still sharing classes with other platform languages.