wrote:
> I want to implement the equality operation for one of my classes, so
> that I can use List<blah>.Contains for a list of those objects instead
> of writing a loop to compare with each item in the list.
>
> When I add ": IEquatable" to my class definition, I get a compile
> error:
> "Using the generic type 'System.IEquatable<T>' requires '1' type
> arguments."
>
> What type am I supposed to specify? I just want to write a method that
> compares two instances for equality, and the .NET 2.0 docs suggest I
> should be using this rather than overriding Equals.
>
> Eq.

Paul E Collins wrote:
> I want to implement the equality operation for one of my classes, so
> that I can use List<blah>.Contains for a list of those objects instead
> of writing a loop to compare with each item in the list.
>
> When I add ": IEquatable" to my class definition, I get a compile
> error:
> "Using the generic type 'System.IEquatable<T>' requires '1' type
> arguments."
>
> What type am I supposed to specify? I just want to write a method that
> compares two instances for equality, and the .NET 2.0 docs suggest I
> should be using this rather than overriding Equals.