Question

Non-generic delegate declaration is done as follows:

delegate void Print(int arg);

where void is a return type and int is the argument type.

A Generic delegate declaration is as below:

delegate void Print<T> (T arg);

where void is again the return type and T in parentheses is generic argument type.

Now we already know the return-type and arguments type then why do we require extra Type in angle bracktes Print<T> ? What does it signify ?

Thank you all in advance.

Answer 1

The <T> in Print<T> is needed to tell the compiler that you are intending to create a generic method. Otherwise it could think T is some type, rather than a type parameter. While intuitively you can infer what the author meant, the compiler is more literal about it.