Question

I recently discovered the wonders of implicit operator overloading in C#. I was wondering, if you have both “ways” of implicit operator overloading, such as:

public static implicit operator FooType(int num)
{
    return new FooType(num);
}

public static implicit operator int(FooType fooType)
{
    return fooType.IntValue;
}

1. Is there a name for that design pattern?
2. Is there a predefined .NET interface that I can use, say ICastable<int>?

Answer 1

1. If it is i have never heard of it
2. Operators are static constructs and are resolved at compile time. They cannot be part of any interface