Casting value to T in a generic method

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I believe this is because the compiler doesn’t know what type of operation it needs to perform. IIRC, you can get it to work if you introduce boxing:

if (typeof(T) == typeof(int)) return (T)(object)map.GetInt(key);

but that’s not ideal in terms of performance.

I think it’s just a limitation of generics, unfortunately.

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