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Original Post: Back to the Future Again!
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What I wasn't sure was whether or not you could call these extension methods when you have a null instance of the object, since they're instance methods. The C++ guy in me said "sure, that should be legal", and the C# guy in me said "it's probably illegal, and that's too bad". Amazingly, the C++ guy in me won!
Heh - Us Smalltalk guys (and the Ruby crowd for that matter) are snickering.