interfaces and such

[Alex Rønne Petersen]

On 27-07-2012 16:56, Gor Gyolchanyan wrote:
> I have a small question: why aren't interfaces implicitly convertible to
> Object?
>
> --
> Bye,
> Gor Gyolchanyan.

I don't know if there's any particular reason, but for what it's worth: 
Casting an interface to Object means going through its vtable back to 
the original object location. In other words, it's not "free" (though 
the cost is extremely minimal).

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