in honor of 4.0's impending beta release, a .NET bitching thread

[recursivelyenumerable]

does System.Type.MakeGenericType really return just a (small-g) generic ArgumentException regardless of whether you passed the wrong number of params or invalid params or whatever?  really?   

[Van Cruncheon]

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wait for 4.0!

[Diunx]

Fascinating.

[recursivelyenumerable]

because what I would really like to do is take advantage of some of the compile-time machinery, i.e. static typechecking, at runtime.  since I can't do that exactly, I am looking at the Reflection stuff and PostSharp for ideas on how to hack together something analogous.

I understand that the C# team is looking at something that may be along these lines ("compiler as service"?) for the next version after 4.0, but I don't wanna wait that long.