I have a simple Money type with an implicit cast from decimal:
struct Money
{
decimal innerValue;
public static implicit operator Money(decimal value)
{
return new Money { innerValue = value };
}
public static explicit operator decimal(Money value)
{
return value.innerValue;
}
public static Money Parse(string s)
{
return decimal.Parse(s);
}
}
And I defined a Sum() overload to operate on those values:
static class MoneyExtensions
{
public static Money Sum<TSource>(this IEnumerable<TSource> source, Func<TSource, Money> selector)
{
return source.Select(x => (decimal)selector(x)).Sum();
}
}
What I didn't expect was for this extension method to interfere with the existing Sum() extension methods:
var source = new[] { "2" };
Money thisWorks = source.Sum(x => Money.Parse(x));
int thisWorksToo = source.Sum(new Func<string, int>(x => int.Parse(x)));
int thisDoesNot = source.Sum(x => int.Parse(x));
The error is "Cannot implicitly convert type 'Money' to 'int'. An explicit conversion exists (are you missing a cast?)". Is it correct that the compiler favors int => decimal => Money implicit conversions over resolving an overload that's an exact match?