C# 3.0 looks like Smalltak
By Fons Sonnemans, 14-sep-2005Many years ago I programmed in Smalltalk (Enfin which later became ObjectStudio). I have always liked it although it was not very programmer friendly (no IntelliSense). I have just wachted this C# 3.0 Language Enhancements in action video. The shown Extension Methods feature realy looks like the Secondary Class files of Smalltalk. Nice to see them back, they where very handy.
In the following example I have added the 'IsPrime()' method to the 'Int32' type. The 'this' keyword in front of the 'number' parameter of the IsPrime() method did the real trick. This makes it an Extension Method.
static void Main(string[] args) {
Console.WriteLine(5.IsPrime()); // true
Console.WriteLine(9.IsPrime()); // false
Console.WriteLine(23.IsPrime()); // true
}
}
static class Extensions {
public static bool IsPrime(this int number) {
if (number == 1 || number == 2 || number == 3) {
return true;
}
if ((number % 2) == 0) {
return false;
}
int sqrt = (int)Math.Sqrt(number);
for (int t = 3; t <= sqrt; t = t + 2) {
if (number % t == 0) {
return false;
}
}
return true;
}
}
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