Code Inspection: Possible infinite inheritance

In a situation similar to the following:

class B<U>
{
}
class A<T> : B<A<A<T>>>
{
}
    

You effectively end up with the type A<T> that inherits an infinitely recursive type B. As a result, your assembly will compile, but you will be unable to execute it. If you try, you will get an error message similar to the following:

        Could not load type ‘ConsoleApplication1.A{{1' from assembly 'ConsoleApplication1, Version=1.0.0.0,
        Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null' because it has recursive generic definition.
    

Last modified: 21 March 2024