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by CrimsonCape 300 days ago
I wonder if anybody has tried inheriting from System.ValueType or System.Object...I need to fire up an IDE and see what kind of virtuals and abstracts are exposed by doing so. If even possible.

It seems like an inheritance hierarchy build upon abstract classes that provide no usable interface just means "hey we need this inheritance for...reasons... cause its legacy!" on the one hand, and "we can rip all this useless ** out" on the other hand.
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estimator7292 300 days ago
As I understand, all types implicitly inherit from Object in C#. That's where the `ToString` and hashcode overrides come from.

Offhand, I'd guess that explicitly inheriting from Object would either do nothing or fail to compile depending on where in the type hierarchy you are.

Similarly, all structs implicitly inherit from ValueType. That's what structs are in C#.

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