Is this a covariance bug in C# 4?

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Variance only works for reference-types (or there is an identity conversion). It is not known that TBase is reference type, unless you add : class:

 public void Foo<TBase>() where TBase : class, IBase

since I could write a:

public struct Evil : IBase {}

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