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Code Inspection: Iteration variable can be declared with a more specific type

Consider the following class hierarchy:

public class Person { public string Name { get; set; } } public class Child : Person { }

If we wanted to write a method that would print all of children’s names, we could define the following:

public void Print(IEnumerable<Child> children) { foreach (Person p in children) Console.WriteLine(p.Name); }

However, why should our iteration variable be Person? In fact, we could easily change it to Child and still get the same result. Please note that there is a case when a more general type could not be replaced with a derived one without changes to the way code behaves. This case can occur if your iteration variable is declared to be of type dynamic.

Last modified: 16 April 2018

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