One of the C# oddities I noted in my recent article was that I find it odd that creating a numeric type with less-than, greater-than, and similar operators requires implementing a lot of redundant methods, methods whose values could be deduced by simply implementing a comparator. For an example of such, see my previous series of articles on implementing math from scratch.

A number of people commented that my scheme does not work in a world with nullable arithmetic (or, similarly, NaN semantics, which are similar enough that I’m not going to call out the subtle differences here.) That reminded me that I’d been intending for some time to point out that when it comes to comparison operators, nullable arithmetic is deeply weird. Check out this little program: Continue reading →